# Average commercial electricity price in Illinois

Average commercial electricity price in Illinois was 13.07 US cents per kWh in 2025 (provisional). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.

- Indicator id: `electricity_price_commercial`
- Place id: `us-state-17`
- Unit: US cents per kWh
- Definition: Average retail price of electricity sold to commercial customers (shops, offices, schools, hospitals and other service buildings) in the year, in US cents per kilowatt hour: utility revenue divided by kilowatt hours sold, as reported to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Note: United States and its states only. An average across all commercial customers, including taxes and delivery charges recovered through rates, not a tariff a given business pays.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity data browser: average retail price of electricity, commercial sector, annual (EIA-861 and EIA-861M) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/), via Data Commons (https://datacommons.org)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-energy-information-administration
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- License: Public domain (US federal government work, attribution requested)
- Citation: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Electricity data browser: average retail price of electricity, commercial sector, annual (EIA-861 and EIA-861M). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/commercial-electricity-price/illinois
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=electricity_price_commercial&place=us-state-17

| Period | US cents per kWh |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 13.07 (provisional) |
| 2024 | 11.81 |
| 2023 | 11.24 |
| 2022 | 11.32 |
| 2021 | 9.65 |
| 2020 | 9.15 |
| 2019 | 9.08 |
| 2018 | 9.12 |
| 2017 | 9.09 |
| 2016 | 9.02 |
| 2015 | 9.02 |
| 2014 | 9.26 |
| 2013 | 8.14 |
| 2012 | 7.99 |
| 2011 | 8.64 |
| 2010 | 8.88 |
| 2009 | 9.04 |
| 2008 | 9.25 |
| 2007 | 8.57 |
| 2006 | 7.95 |
| 2005 | 7.75 |
| 2004 | 7.54 |
| 2003 | 7.3 |
| 2002 | 7.52 |
| 2001 | 7.4 |