Locator: 49848ELECTRICITY.
Tag: electricity states.
October, 2026, data was posted here back on December 29, 2025.
New data is for November, 2025.
In a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors.
Average price of electricity by state, November, 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 in each sector:
- residential:
- North Dakota: 11.93
- Idaho: 12.25
- Nebraska: 12.52.
- Louisiana: 12.74
- Montana: 12.82
- by the way, these are the only states below 13 cents / kWh.
- commercial:
- North Dakota: 7.40
- Texas; 8.19
- Nebraka: 8.56
- Oklahoma: 8.65
- by the way, these are the only states below 9 cents / kWh.
- industrial (all states below 7 cents / kWh):
- New Mexico -- winner, winner, chicken dinner -- 5.37 (down from $5.52 last year)
- Louisiana: 5.88 (up from 5.05 last year)
- Oklahoma: 6.13 (about the same from last year, 5.50)
- Iowa: 6.36 (up from 6.24 last year)
- Idaho: falls off the list
- Arkansas: 6.53 (down from 6.78 last year)
- Tennessee: 6.43 (up from 6.14 last year)
- Georgia: 6.83 (up from 6.31 last year)
- Texas: 6.63 (way up from 6.08 last year)
- Nevada: 6.81 (way down from 7.55 last year)
- Montana: 6.88 (up from 6.78 last year)
- South Carolina: 6.71 (down from 6.75 last year)
- Kentucky: 6.86 (up from 6.53 last year)
- Washington state: 6.84 (up from 6.51 last year)
- Interestingly, North Dakota is not on that list -- 7.55 (up from 7.18 last year).
- Now, taking all those sectors together, the "average":
- North Dakota: 8.24
- New Mexico: 8.87
- Iowa: 8.82
- 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 9% y/y
The state not listed above that interests me most: California:
- residential: 31.91 cents US, 17.78
- throw out the outliers and the US average would be lower than 17.78;
- California: almost twice the US average
- commercial: 24.45; again, California is almost twice the US average (13.19)
- industrial: California's rate is a whopping 19 cents vs US average of 8 -- again, about double the national average
- all sectors: California, 25.89 cents vs 13.42 cents; again, almost exactly twice the national average; but get this, California at 26 cents is almost in the same ballpark as Hawaii at 36 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.
