# Average residential electricity price in South Carolina

Average residential electricity price in South Carolina was 14.96 US cents per kWh in 2025 (provisional). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.

- Indicator id: `electricity_price_residential`
- Place id: `us-state-45`
- Unit: US cents per kWh
- Definition: 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.
- Note: 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.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity data browser: average retail price of electricity, residential 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, residential 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/residential-electricity-price/south-carolina
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=electricity_price_residential&place=us-state-45

| Period | US cents per kWh |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 14.96 (provisional) |
| 2024 | 14.23 |
| 2023 | 13.68 |
| 2022 | 13.59 |
| 2021 | 12.86 |
| 2020 | 12.78 |
| 2019 | 12.99 |
| 2018 | 12.44 |
| 2017 | 13.02 |
| 2016 | 12.65 |
| 2015 | 12.57 |
| 2014 | 12.45 |
| 2013 | 11.99 |
| 2012 | 11.77 |
| 2011 | 11.05 |
| 2010 | 10.5 |
| 2009 | 10.44 |
| 2008 | 9.89 |
| 2007 | 9.19 |
| 2006 | 9.03 |
| 2005 | 8.67 |
| 2004 | 8.12 |
| 2003 | 8.01 |
| 2002 | 7.72 |
| 2001 | 7.69 |