Locator: 51551ELECTRICITY.
Electric power monthly, by state, has just been posted. Link here. June, 2026, data.
North Dakota, all sectors -- 8.65 a year ago; this year, 9.01 cents / kwh. Absolutely the lowest of all states!
New England: all that angst? Year/year looks pretty good for Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Louisiana: industrial, less than 7 cents / kwh. Texas is slightly less expensive than Louisiana.
Locator: 51094ELECTRICITY.
Residential:
Commercial:
Industrial:
All sectors:
Locator: 51069ELECTRICITY.
Our only power source: electricity; no natural gas. One bedroom / one den apartment, north Texas, one month. No attempt to conserve energy except we do watch our heat and a/c closely. This is our total utility (electricity) bill.
The company says our average price paid for electricity this month was 18.70 cents / kWh.
This summer has been very, very hot compared to previous months.
Locator: 50072ELECTRICITY.
Tag: electricity states.
October, 2025, data was posted here back on December 29, 2025.
New data is for December, 2025.
In a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors.
Average price of electricity by state, December, 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:
Comments:
The state not listed above that interests me most: California:
Locator: 49848ELECTRICITY.
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:
Comments:
The state not listed above that interests me most: California:
Locator: 49762ELECTRICITY.
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:
Comments:
The state not listed above that interests me most: California:
At this point, it would be very, very interesting to compare:
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.
Locator: 49596ELECTRICITY.
Industrial:
Locator: 49533ELECTRICITY.
Tag: personal utility
Our only utility bill is electricity, for a small one-bedroom-one-bath-one-den/office apartment in north Texas. We have no natural gas. This is our total energy bill for the apartment.
Monthly bill was significantly LESS this month compared to last month, and less than the same month a year ago. With all fees, taxes, etc., we're averaging about 19 cents / kWh.
EIA's data on electricity rates by state: link here.
Locator: 48678ELECTRICITY.
Note: in a blog like this with a lot of numbers / data points, there will be typographical and content errors.
This blog is being re-posted as originally posted back on June 4, 2025 (March, 2025, data) but the numbers are updated to reflect the most recent data, the May, 2025, data.
Link here to The New York Times.
Of course, Trump is being blamed.
Let's not mention New Yorkers refusing that natural gas pipeline.
From The New York Times:
The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power.
And some of President Trump’s policies risk making things worse, despite his promises to slash energy prices, companies and researchers say.
This week, the Senate is taking up Mr. Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, which has already passed the House. In its current form, that bill would abruptly end most of the Biden-era federal tax credits for low-carbon sources of electricity like wind, solar, batteries and geothermal power.
Repealing those credits could increase the average family’s energy bill by as much as $400 per year within a decade, according to several studies published this year.
$400 / year at worst within a decade. Oh give me a break. Surging? As The New York Times says. At most, an increase of $400 / year within a decade.
So, on average, $40 / year increase.
Why didn't The New York Times say $4,000 over the next 100 years. Four-thousand dollars certainly sounds a lot worse than $400.
Average electricity bill in the US:
Texas, 2025: $170.63, higher than the national average due to increased consumption during extreme weather conditions.
Bottom line:
Whatever.
Probably consistent with inflation.
Americans have it so great. The rest of the world would like to have our energy costs.
What's killing Americans when it comes to inflation:
Residential electricity is not on that list.
Now, the most recent rates by state.
North Dakota, once again, the lowest among all 57 states, last column, all sectors.
North Dakota: 8.34 cents.
Iowa, poster child for wind: 8.99 cents.
Texas: 10.22 cents.
California: holy mackerel -- 26.03 cents! Is anyone paying attention?
Those numbers are in the final column, "all sectors."
For commercial which is much, much more expensive:
California, commercial:
North Dakota, commercial:
Residential costs: North Dakota is among the lowest, but not the lowest. For May, 2025:
Commercial costs: North Dakota is the lowest. For May, 2025:
Industrial costs: North Dakota is among the lowest but not the lowest, mostly because North Dakota does not have a large industrial base.
Locator: 48678ELECTRICITY.
Link here to The New York Times.
Of course, Trump is being blamed.
Let's not mention New Yorkers refusing that natural gas pipeline.
From The New York Times:
The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power.
And some of President Trump’s policies risk making things worse, despite his promises to slash energy prices, companies and researchers say.
This week, the Senate is taking up Mr. Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, which has already passed the House. In its current form, that bill would abruptly end most of the Biden-era federal tax credits for low-carbon sources of electricity like wind, solar, batteries and geothermal power.
Repealing those credits could increase the average family’s energy bill by as much as $400 per year within a decade, according to several studies published this year.
$400 / year at worst within a decade. Oh give me a break. Surging? As The New York Times says. At most, an increase of $400 / year within a decade.
So, on average, $40 / year increase.
Why didn't The New York Times say $4,000 over the next 100 years. Four-thousand dollars certainly sounds a lot worse than $400.
Average electricity bill in the US:
Texas, 2025: $170.63, higher than the national average due to increased consumption during extreme weather conditions.
Bottom line:
Whatever.
Probably consistent with inflation.
Americans have it so great. The rest of the world would like to have our energy costs.
What's killing Americans when it comes to inflation:
Residential electricity is not on that list.
Now, the most recent rates by state.
North Dakota, once again, the lowest among all 57 states.
North Dakota: 11.08 cents.
Iowa, poster child for wind: 12.55 cents.
Texas: 15.30 cents.
California: holy mackerel -- 32.41 cents! Is anyone paying attention?
That's residential. For commercial which is much, much more expensive:
California, commercial:
North Dakota, commercial:
Locator: 48392GERMANY.
This graph is meaningless -- okay, it's not meaningless but it's of limited value when provided out of context. But it sure is interesting. We knew Germany was in trouble but we did not know to what extent. Schadenfreude.
Locator: 48427ISONE.
Electricity costs in New England, New York right now -- 5:30 a.m. local time on the East Coast --
Locator: 48406ELECTRICITY.
Our monthly utility bill. We only have electricity, no natural gas.
Up until about a year ago, I worked very, very hard at conserving electricity. No longer. About a year ago, except for drying clothes at peak energy demand in the summer, I no longer care about our use of electricity. As a wag, I suppose, our monthly electricity bills have increased about 10%. An average "shoulder" month (spring, autumn) probably went from around $85 to $95?
This was a very cold month, but it turned out to be almost identical to the statement one year ago. Amazing how similar the two statements were, December, 2024, and December, 2025.
One year ago:
As noted, we have no natural gas, only electricity.
Locator: 44421ELECTRICITY.
Our monthly utility bill. We only have electricity, no natural gas.
Up
until about a year ago, I worked very, very hard at conserving
electricity. No longer. About a year ago, except for drying clothes at
peak energy demand in the summer, I no longer care about our use of
electricity. As a wag, I suppose, our monthly electricity bills have
increased about 10%. An average "shoulder" month (spring, autumn) probably
went from around $85 to $95?
Most recent bill:
Locator: 48751ELECTRICITY.
This is quite coincidental. Earlier this morning, we talked about the price of electricity -- from a tweet about the cost of electricity "today." And then, just an hour or so later, SStap provided a great tweet on the same subject. See below.
Updates
6:21 a.m. CT, link here:
5:45 a.m. CT, link here:
Original Post
Just the links right now.
Locator: 48751ELECTRICITY.
Updates
5:45 a.m. CT, link here:
Original Post
Just the links right now.
Locator: 48431ELECTRICITY.
Electricity demand surging: great interactive article in The WSJ today. Link here.
Which immediately takes us to California: link here.
Re-posting:
Electric rates tracked here by the EIA.
Residential electric rates, cents per kWh, May, 2024, for selected states:
But, cost of electricity is like the US postage stamp: for residential demand, it's not the cost/kWh, it's the amount of electricity actually used per household/month. For US postage stamps, it's not the cost per stamp, it's the overall cost of mailing for non-commercial users. See household demand by state at this link. Average monthly use by household:
Coincidentally, this was posted yesterday:
Which takes me to SRE. Ticker:
ERCOT: link here. Holding, but will be challenging through the rest of the month of August.
