Snapshot 2026-10 · rebuilt monthly
Every US residential electricity tariff, priced.
911 currently maintained residential tariffs from 183 utilities — decoded from the raw filings, with tier ladders, time-of-use schedules and fixed charges applied properly. Drawn from a catalog of 6,357 on file, of which we publish only what is recent enough to price against.
- Tiers and time-of-use applied
- Fixed charges included
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Directory
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183 utilities with a recently filed residential tariff, searchable by name or state.
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What a kilowatt-hour costs, state by state
Median effective rate at 1,000 kWh a month, fixed charges included, across tariffs filed since 2020.
- AL15.8¢
- AK
- AZ14.8¢
- AR10.8¢
- CA39.4¢
- CO16.8¢
- CT30.2¢
- DE15.6¢
- DC19.0¢
- FL13.4¢
- GA13.9¢
- HI37.5¢
- ID14.0¢
- IL13.7¢
- IN16.1¢
- IA11.0¢
- KS12.9¢
- KY15.2¢
- LA11.6¢
- ME28.2¢
- MD18.5¢
- MA25.7¢
- MI21.2¢
- MN14.9¢
- MS13.2¢
- MO13.2¢
- MT14.0¢
- NE12.5¢
- NV12.5¢
- NH24.9¢
- NJ22.2¢
- NM13.1¢
- NY21.3¢
- NC15.4¢
- ND15.2¢
- OH18.4¢
- OK10.8¢
- OR16.8¢
- PA22.2¢
- RI25.4¢
- SC15.7¢
- SD15.2¢
- TN15.4¢
- TX12.8¢
- UT13.3¢
- VT24.5¢
- VA16.9¢
- WA14.7¢
- WV13.7¢
- WI18.4¢
- WY14.8¢
- Under 13.2¢
- 13.2–14.8¢
- 14.8–16.1¢
- 16.1–22.2¢
- 22.2¢ and over
- No recent filings
Cheapest
Dearest
- California$0.3943
- Hawaii$0.3752
- Connecticut$0.3018
US median $0.1658 per kWh. Medians leave out partial-bill, restricted and suspect filings, as the rankings do.
Why this is harder than it looks
Utility tariffs are public, but they are published as filings, not as prices.
Structure
A rate is a stack of rules
A single residential rate can carry a tiered ladder whose thresholds reset daily rather than monthly, a time-of-use schedule that differs by month and by weekday, a fixed charge billed per day rather than per month, and a rider that is added to the headline rate rather than included in it.
Method
Priced exactly, or not at all
Get any one of those wrong and the answer is not slightly off, it is wrong by a multiple. We publish exactly how we handle each of them, and we refuse to estimate the 344 rates that cannot be priced from consumption alone rather than guessing at them.
Vintage
Old filings look cheap
A tariff in the national database with no end date is not necessarily in force — it means nobody recorded an end. Filings more than a decade old sit about 17% below what their utility now charges, so we rank only tariffs filed since 2020 and label every figure with its year.
Guides
How electricity pricing actually works, measured against the filings.
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The average electric bill in every state in 2025
US homes used 874 kWh a month in 2025 and paid an average $150.68. Bills ran from $95 in New Mexico to $208 in Hawaii.
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The cheapest and most expensive electric utilities in 2025
Among 162 utilities serving 100,000+ households, the average price paid in 2025 ran from 10.5¢ per kWh to 45.8¢. 18 of the 20 priciest are investor-owned.
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Co-op, city utility or investor-owned: who charges more?
In 2025, city utilities charged a median 13¢ per kWh, co-ops 14.3¢ and investor-owned utilities 17¢. Co-ops' fixed charges are more than double.