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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.
