Electricity retail sales
Electricity sold to all ultimate customers: residential, commercial, industrial and transportation, in terawatt hours (billion kilowatt hours), as reported by utilities and other retailers to the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Form EIA-861.
Retail sales only: electricity that plants and businesses generate and use themselves (direct use) is not included, so this is lower than total consumption, and it is not the same as electricity_consumption, which EIA publishes for countries. Published in megawatt hours; shown in terawatt hours. From 1990 to 2002 the all-sector total includes an "other" sector (public street lighting, other public authorities and railways); from 2003 EIA reports these sales under commercial, industrial and a new transportation sector.
Key facts
- Electricity retail sales in the United States was 4,079.909 TWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Texas had the highest electricity retail sales of 51 states in 2025, at 533.26 TWh, and Vermont the lowest, at 5.487 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 1990 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by electricity retail sales, 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Louisiana
- Washington
- Maine
- Rhode Island
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest electricity retail sales? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"electricity_retail_sales","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=electricity_retail_sales&level=region&within=United%20States