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US Residential Electricity Prices by State (EIA)
Average residential retail electricity price in cents per kilowatt-hour for every US state and the District of Columbia, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration Electric Power Monthly. Shows where household electricity is most and least expensive in the United States.
51 states · U.S. Energy Information Administration · US Government public domain
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Methodology
Prices are taken verbatim from the EIA Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A (average price of electricity to ultimate customers, residential sector) for the reference month. Values are cents per kWh exactly as published; nothing is re-weighted, annualised or estimated.
How this snapshot is prepared & verified
- Source. Retrieved from U.S. Energy Information Administration — Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A (U.S. Energy Information Administration), the official publisher, under the US Government public domain. Reference period: April 2026.
- Verbatim capture. Every figure shown here is copied from, or computed directly from, that snapshot — nothing is estimated, rounded away or hand-entered.
- Verification. Column values are checked against the published source before release, and the licence and attribution are preserved exactly as issued.
- Re-publication. The snapshot is exposed as a citable page plus JSON and CSV downloads so it stays independently verifiable and quotable.
The JSON summary and CSV export contain a verbatim sample of the snapshot with full provenance. The complete dataset is available from the original source linked above.
Sample rows
A verbatim sample from the verified snapshot. Full data is in the JSON summary and on the source page.
| state | centsPerKwh |
|---|---|
| Hawaii | 46.62 |
| California | 35.25 |
| Connecticut | 32.24 |
| Massachusetts | 29.45 |
| New York | 29.45 |
| Maine | 28.42 |
| Rhode Island | 28.3 |
| Alaska | 27.35 |
Provenance
- Source:
- U.S. Energy Information Administration — Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A
- Publisher:
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Coverage:
- United States — all 50 states + District of Columbia
- As of:
- April 2026
- Licence:
- US Government public domain
U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A (Average Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector, by State), residential sector, April 2026 — https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a (public domain) Re-published by GeraHome at https://gerahome.com/data/us-electricity-prices.