Electricity Rates By State -- EIA -- Have Just Posted -- January, 2026, Data -- April 8, 2026

Locator: 50460ELECTRICITY. 

Link here. 

Tag: electricity states.

October, 2025, data was posted here back on December 29, 2025.

New data is for January, 2026.

In a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors.  

Average price of electricity by state, January, 2026, 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.

I ignore the outliers in this post: Alaska and Hawaii. 

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The Highlights

North Dakota simply has the least expensive electricity, by state, in the United States.  

One has to spend some time to see how amazing these numbers are.

All numbers / prices are cents / kWh -- the average price of electricity to ultimate customers by end-use sector. 

Residential price:

• North Dakota is the only state with a "10-handle."

Commercial rate:

• North Dakota is the only state with a "7-handle."

Industrial rate:

• North Dakota is one of only a handful of states also with a "7-handle."

Overall price:

• North Dakota is the only state with an "8-handle."  

The only states / regions with a "30-handle" for residential customers:

• New England (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine) 
• California

Look at the Pacific contiguous, residential:

• Washington state: 13.81 cents / kWh;
• Oregon: 14.66;
• California: 30.29!!! 

Texas:

• residential: 15.69 cents
• commercial: 8.64 cents
• industrial (cost to Elon Musk for his TeraFab): 7.25 cents
• compare to California: 13.42 cents, almost double
• overall average: 10.56 cents.