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In a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors.
Average price of electricity by state, October, 2025, data.
There are five "sectors": residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, and all sources. I generally ignore the fourth column (transportation).
For the larger energy-using states, the most important sector is the last column, "all sectors."
For tech-heavy states, most important is the third column, industrial.
For individual Americans, I suppose, the most important column is the first column, residential.
So, let's break it down, least expensive three in each sector:
- residential:
- Louisiana: 12.39
- Idaho: 12.46
- North Dakota: 12.82
- by the way, these are the only states below 13 cents / kWh.
- commercial:
- North Dakota: 6.96
- Texas; 8:30
- Nebraka: 8.82
- by the way, these are the only states below 9 cents / kWh; and only North Dakota is below 7 cents / kWh.
- industrial (all states below 7 cents / kWh):
- New Mexico -- winner, winner, chicken dinner -- 5.53 (up from $5.31 last year)
- Louisiana: 5.80 (up from 5.45 last year)
- Oklahoma: 6.23 (about the same from last year, 6.27)
- Iowa: 6.26 (down from 6.36 last year)
- Idaho: 6.46 (up from 6.13 last year)
- Arkansas: 6.48 (down from 6.74 last year)
- Tennessee: 6.50 (up from 6.17 last year)
- Georgia: 6.64 (up from 6.39 last year)
- Texas: 6.66 (way up from 5.86 last year)
- Nevada: 6.81 (way down from 7.55 last year)
- Montana: 6.97 (down from 7.23 last year)
- South Carolina: 6.98 (down from 7.08 last year)
- Interestingly, North Dakota is not on that list -- 7.54 (up from 7.26 last year).
- Now, taking all those sectors together, the "average":
- North Dakota: 8.04
- New Mexico: 8.81
- Iowa: 8.89
- these are the only states below 9 cents / kWh.
Comments:
- in a state with incredibly "stable" / predictable weather, renewable energy "works": Iowa
- renewable energy does not work in Texas based on the way the state regulates the industry
- I tend to ignore New Mexico
- Texas has relatively inexpensive electricity rates, but the industrial rate in Texas increased by 14% y/y
The state not listed above that interests me most: California:
- residential: 33.60 cents US, 17.98
- throw out the outliers and the US average would be lower than 17.98;
- California: twice the US average
- commercial: 26.96; again, California is twice the US average
- industrial: California's rate is a whopping 23 cents vs US average of 9 -- is that like almost 3x the national average?
- all sectors: California, 28 cents vs 14 cents; again, exactly twice the national average; but get this, California at 28 cents is almost in the same ballpark as Hawaii at 35 cents. throw out New England (a real energy mess) and throw out the outliers, Hawaii and Alaska, and California compared to the rest of the nation is insane.
At this point, it would be very, very interesting to compare:
- renting vs home ownership, percentage comparison, New York, Texas, California);
- average total cost of electricity for a homeowner vs renters;
- burden of electricity costs for renters vs homeowners;
- other similar data.
I have done that; it's difficult to ask the right question for AI to understand what one is asking.
This was most interesting:
But again, AI is considering a lot more than just natural gas / electricity in "utilities." AI also includes phone, internet, water, sewer, etc. At the end of the day, I can't make any sense of the numbers.
A swimming pool in Dallas: annual costs are $1,500 to $6,000 / year. Professional pool maintenance in Dallas, TX: about $150 to $300 / month.
