Friday, February 27, 2026

Electricity Rates By State -- EIA -- Have Just Posted -- December, 2026, Data -- February 27, 2026

Locator: 50072ELECTRICITY. 

Link here. 

Tag: electricity states.

October, 2025, 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: 11.02 (down from 11.93, October, 2025)
    • Idaho: 11.87
    • Nebraska: 11.57. 
    • Missouri: 11.91 
    • Arkansas: 12.33 
    • South Dakota: 12.51 
    • Iowa: 12.60 
    • Louisiana: 12.56 
    • Montana: 12.77 
    • Nevada: 12.83
    • Wyoming: 12.83 
    • Utah: 12.99 
    • by the way, these are the only states below 13 cents / kWh.
  • commercial: 
    • North Dakota: 7.28 
    • Nevada: 8.95
    • Idaho: 8.90 
    • Nebraska: 8.28
    • Oklahoma: 8.60
    • 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 -- 5.13
    • Louisiana: 5.96
    • Oklahoma: 5.96
    • Iowa: 6.40
    • Idaho: 6.78
    • Arkansas: 6.43
    • Tennessee: 6.24
    • Georgia: 6.83 (up from 6.31 last year)
    • Texas: 6.67
    • Nevada: 6.81 (way down from 7.55 last year)
    • Montana: 6.34
    • South Carolina: 6.71 (down from 6.75 last year)
    • Kentucky: 6.98
    • Washington state: 6.92
  • Interestingly, North Dakota is not on that list -- 7.37
  • Now, taking all those sectors together, the "average":
    • North Dakota: 8.12
    • New Mexico: 8.69
    • Iowa: 8.94 
    • Oklahoma: 8.99 
    • 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 7% y/y

The state not listed above that interests me most: California:

  • residential: 34.71 cents US, 17.24 
    • throw out the outliers and the US average would be lower than 17.24; 
    • California: almost twice the US average
  • commercial: 26.92; again, California is almost twice the US average (13.63)
  • industrial: California's rate is a whopping 19.86 cents vs US average of 8.53  -- again, about double the national average
  • all sectors: California, 28.18 cents vs 13.73 cents; again, almost exactly twice the national average; but get this, California at 28.18 cents is almost in the same ballpark as Hawaii at 37.12 cents. throw out New England (25.15 cents; a real energy mess) and throw out the outliers, Hawaii and Alaska, and California compared to the rest of the nation is insane. 
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