Average residential electricity price
Average retail price of electricity sold to residential customers 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.
United States and its states only. Includes taxes and delivery charges recovered through rates, so it is an average bill price, not a wholesale or tariff price.
Key facts
- Average residential electricity price in the United States was 17.3 US cents per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Hawaii had the highest average residential electricity price of 51 states in 2025, at 40.59 US cents per kWh, and North Dakota the lowest, at 11.81 US cents per kWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 2001 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by average residential electricity price, 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Oklahoma
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 average residential electricity price? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"electricity_price_residential","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=electricity_price_residential&level=region&within=United%20States