Residential Electricity Rates - United States

See how electricity rates vary across the country.

Our interactive map shows you the latest available residential retail utility rates for each state across the United States, and by how much they increased on average, each year during the period between 2005 and 2017, otherwise known as the escalation rate. this map of electricity rates can help you assess whether you want to mitigate against the risk of increasing rates by investing in solar panels.


Analysis assumptions:
• Utility rates are based on the monthly residential rate data set as reported by the EIA.
• Utility rates are computed using the last 12 available months in the dataset.
• Escalation rates are computed from the beginning of the data set (2005) to the last available full-year of data (2017).

U.S. 12-month Average
12.81 cents/KWh
U.S. Average Annual Escalation Rate (2005-2017)
2.59%
State Utility rate (per kWh) Annual escalation rate since 2005 (%)
Alabama12.643.86
Alaska21.644.14
Arizona12.392.95
Arkansas10.212.12
California18.13.35
Colorado12.112.44
Connecticut20.373.39
Delaware13.523.44
Florida11.891.78
Georgia11.732.61
Hawaii29.523.03
Idaho10.174.03
Illinois12.773.63
Indiana12.013.93
Iowa12.612.57
Kansas13.274.42
Kentucky10.664.21
Louisiana9.480.53
Maine15.971.64
Maryland14.034.46
Massachusetts19.883.32
Michigan15.475.14
Minnesota13.233.97
Mississippi11.232.09
Missouri11.193.95
Montana11.172.66
Nebraska11.013.77
Nevada12.11.34
New Hampshire19.282.96
New Jersey15.662.59
New Mexico12.872.9
New York18.021.15
Nortd Carolina11.162.05
Nortd Dakota10.73.41
Ohio12.393.18
Oklahoma10.562.38
Oregon10.753.34
Pennsylvania14.363.14
Rhode Island18.422.98
Soutd Carolina12.83.25
Soutd Dakota11.83.49
Tennessee10.653.54
Texas11.190.32
Utah11.063.26
Vermont17.182.33
Virginia12.143.35
Washington9.873.48
West Virginia11.525.23
Wisconsin14.443.42
Wyoming11.743.83