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Reference table · May 2026

Electricity rates by state

Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, ranked by what residential customers actually pay per kilowatt-hour. The U.S. average is 18.44¢, +6.2% against a year earlier. 19 jurisdictions sit above that line, 45 rose over the year and 6 fell.

All 51 jurisdictions ranked by residential rate, May 2026 (¢/kWh)
# State May 2026 (¢/kWh) May 2025 Change vs. U.S.
1 Hawaii 52.00 41.03 +26.7% +182.0%
2 California 33.25 33.29 -0.1% +80.3%
3 New York 29.93 26.69 +12.1% +62.3%
4 Rhode Island 29.46 29.00 +1.6% +59.8%
5 Massachusetts 28.82 29.90 -3.6% +56.3%
6 Maine 28.63 27.91 +2.6% +55.3%
7 Alaska 28.23 26.08 +8.2% +53.1%
8 Connecticut 27.37 31.59 -13.4% +48.4%
9 New Hampshire 27.33 24.02 +13.8% +48.2%
10 District of Columbia 25.40 20.43 +24.3% +37.7%
11 Vermont 24.89 23.75 +4.8% +35.0%
12 Illinois 23.85 18.58 +28.4% +29.3%
13 New Jersey 23.27 20.48 +13.6% +26.2%
14 Michigan 22.01 20.23 +8.8% +19.4%
15 Maryland 21.77 19.00 +14.6% +18.1%
16 Pennsylvania 21.55 19.29 +11.7% +16.9%
17 Wisconsin 19.74 18.94 +4.2% +7.0%
18 Ohio 19.52 17.09 +14.2% +5.9%
19 Delaware 19.38 18.13 +6.9% +5.1%
20 Indiana 18.15 16.90 +7.4% -1.6%
21 Virginia 17.61 15.26 +15.4% -4.5%
22 Minnesota 16.95 15.84 +7.0% -8.1%
23 West Virginia 16.80 16.18 +3.8% -8.9%
24 Alabama 16.77 16.15 +3.8% -9.1%
25 Texas 16.44 15.53 +5.9% -10.8%
26 Oregon 16.27 15.91 +2.3% -11.8%
27 South Carolina 16.18 15.41 +5.0% -12.3%
28 Colorado 16.16 15.58 +3.7% -12.4%
29 Mississippi 16.16 14.84 +8.9% -12.4%
30 Georgia 15.84 14.98 +5.7% -14.1%
31 South Dakota 15.73 14.33 +9.8% -14.7%
32 Arizona 15.23 15.71 -3.1% -17.4%
33 Florida 15.17 14.97 +1.3% -17.7%
34 Kansas 15.13 14.73 +2.7% -18.0%
35 North Carolina 15.09 14.32 +5.4% -18.2%
36 Kentucky 14.98 13.85 +8.2% -18.8%
37 Washington 14.95 13.65 +9.5% -18.9%
38 Wyoming 14.80 13.82 +7.1% -19.7%
39 Montana 14.67 12.88 +13.9% -20.4%
40 Tennessee 14.47 13.73 +5.4% -21.5%
41 Arkansas 14.36 13.19 +8.9% -22.1%
42 Louisiana 14.15 13.26 +6.7% -23.3%
43 Iowa 14.14 14.16 -0.1% -23.3%
44 New Mexico 14.12 14.50 -2.6% -23.4%
45 Missouri 13.68 13.01 +5.1% -25.8%
46 North Dakota 13.61 13.10 +3.9% -26.2%
47 Nevada 13.60 13.29 +2.3% -26.2%
48 Nebraska 13.59 13.15 +3.3% -26.3%
49 Oklahoma 13.38 12.94 +3.4% -27.4%
50 Utah 12.96 12.60 +2.9% -29.7%
51 Idaho 12.35 11.88 +4.0% -33.0%

Change measured against May 2025. Source: 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, Form Form EIA-861M. Retrieved 2026-08-19. Methodology · Download CSV

How to read these numbers

Each figure is the average revenue a state's utilities collected per kilowatt-hour sold to residential customers. It is not a tariff you can sign up for. It blends every rate schedule in the state, including flat rates, tiered rates, time-of-use rates and low-income discounts, and it covers both the supply half of the bill and the delivery half.

That matters when you compare states, because the two halves behave differently. In Hawaii and California, delivery and policy charges make up an unusually large share. In Texas, most of the bill is supply, and it varies by which retail plan a household signed. Two states with the same headline rate can be very different places to be a customer.

The averages also conceal within-state variation that is sometimes larger than the gap between states. New York is the clearest case: Con Edison customers in New York City pay far more than customers of an upstate utility, and the statewide average describes neither. Washington, Colorado and Utah have the same problem in a milder form, where municipal utilities charge materially less than the investor-owned utility next door.

Use the table to establish orders of magnitude and direction of travel. Use your own bill to find out what you actually pay.

By region

Regional averages are unweighted means of the jurisdictions in each Census region. Treat them as a rough guide to where a state sits relative to its neighbours, not as a population-weighted figure.

Northeast

26.81¢ avg

Midwest

17.18¢ avg

South

16.70¢ avg

West

19.89¢ avg
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Residential electricity rates by state, May 2026

AK 28.23 Alaska: 28.23 cents per kilowatt-hour ME 28.63 Maine: 28.63 cents per kilowatt-hour VT 24.89 Vermont: 24.89 cents per kilowatt-hour NH 27.33 New Hampshire: 27.33 cents per kilowatt-hour WA 14.95 Washington: 14.95 cents per kilowatt-hour ID 12.35 Idaho: 12.35 cents per kilowatt-hour MT 14.67 Montana: 14.67 cents per kilowatt-hour ND 13.61 North Dakota: 13.61 cents per kilowatt-hour MN 16.95 Minnesota: 16.95 cents per kilowatt-hour IL 23.85 Illinois: 23.85 cents per kilowatt-hour WI 19.74 Wisconsin: 19.74 cents per kilowatt-hour MI 22.01 Michigan: 22.01 cents per kilowatt-hour NY 29.93 New York: 29.93 cents per kilowatt-hour RI 29.46 Rhode Island: 29.46 cents per kilowatt-hour MA 28.82 Massachusetts: 28.82 cents per kilowatt-hour OR 16.27 Oregon: 16.27 cents per kilowatt-hour NV 13.60 Nevada: 13.60 cents per kilowatt-hour WY 14.80 Wyoming: 14.80 cents per kilowatt-hour SD 15.73 South Dakota: 15.73 cents per kilowatt-hour IA 14.14 Iowa: 14.14 cents per kilowatt-hour IN 18.15 Indiana: 18.15 cents per kilowatt-hour OH 19.52 Ohio: 19.52 cents per kilowatt-hour PA 21.55 Pennsylvania: 21.55 cents per kilowatt-hour NJ 23.27 New Jersey: 23.27 cents per kilowatt-hour CT 27.37 Connecticut: 27.37 cents per kilowatt-hour CA 33.25 California: 33.25 cents per kilowatt-hour UT 12.96 Utah: 12.96 cents per kilowatt-hour CO 16.16 Colorado: 16.16 cents per kilowatt-hour NE 13.59 Nebraska: 13.59 cents per kilowatt-hour MO 13.68 Missouri: 13.68 cents per kilowatt-hour KY 14.98 Kentucky: 14.98 cents per kilowatt-hour WV 16.80 West Virginia: 16.80 cents per kilowatt-hour VA 17.61 Virginia: 17.61 cents per kilowatt-hour MD 21.77 Maryland: 21.77 cents per kilowatt-hour DE 19.38 Delaware: 19.38 cents per kilowatt-hour AZ 15.23 Arizona: 15.23 cents per kilowatt-hour NM 14.12 New Mexico: 14.12 cents per kilowatt-hour KS 15.13 Kansas: 15.13 cents per kilowatt-hour AR 14.36 Arkansas: 14.36 cents per kilowatt-hour TN 14.47 Tennessee: 14.47 cents per kilowatt-hour NC 15.09 North Carolina: 15.09 cents per kilowatt-hour SC 16.18 South Carolina: 16.18 cents per kilowatt-hour DC 25.40 District of Columbia: 25.40 cents per kilowatt-hour OK 13.38 Oklahoma: 13.38 cents per kilowatt-hour LA 14.15 Louisiana: 14.15 cents per kilowatt-hour MS 16.16 Mississippi: 16.16 cents per kilowatt-hour AL 16.77 Alabama: 16.77 cents per kilowatt-hour GA 15.84 Georgia: 15.84 cents per kilowatt-hour HI 52.00 Hawaii: 52.00 cents per kilowatt-hour TX 16.44 Texas: 16.44 cents per kilowatt-hour FL 15.17 Florida: 15.17 cents per kilowatt-hour
≤13.59¢ ≥29.93¢ U.S. average 18.44¢ / kWh

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