Residential electricity sales
Electricity sold to residential customers (households), 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.
Key facts
- Residential electricity sales in the United States was 1,519.151 TWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Texas had the highest residential electricity sales of 51 states in 2025, at 170.458 TWh, and Alaska the lowest, at 2.039 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 1990 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by residential electricity sales, 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Kentucky
- Kansas
- Maine
- Louisiana
- West Virginia
- Massachusetts
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 residential electricity sales? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"electricity_retail_sales_residential","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=electricity_retail_sales_residential&level=region&within=United%20States