What utilities charged for electricity in 2025

Every year the Energy Information Administration surveys every US electric utility. Its final figures for 2025, published in October 2026, record what each one collected from residential customers and how much electricity it sold them. Dividing one by the other gives the average price households actually paid per kWh, fixed charges included. Set beside the same figure for 2024, it shows what changed.

Most utilities charged more

Of 1,199 utilities with a price in both years:

• The median price rose 4.1%.
• 957 charged more, and 227 charged less.
• At 137 the price rose 10% or more; at 15, 20% or more.

Counting households rather than utilities, the average rise was 5.3%. 80% of residential customers are served by a utility that raised its price, and 23% by one that raised it by 10% or more.

The largest utilities moved a little more than the smallest. Among the 162 with at least 100,000 residential customers, the median rise was 5.1%, and 37 rose 10% or more.

The largest increases

Among those 162 large utilities:

Utility	2024	2025	Change
New York State Electric & Gas	18.3¢	22.6¢	+23%
Public Service Electric & Gas (NJ)	20.4¢	25.0¢	+23%
Tri-County Electric Cooperative (TX)	12.7¢	15.1¢	+19%
Tampa Electric (FL)	14.7¢	17.3¢	+18%
Jersey Central Power & Light (NJ)	15.6¢	18.4¢	+17%
Duke Energy Indiana	12.7¢	15.0¢	+17%
Rochester Gas & Electric (NY)	18.8¢	22.0¢	+17%
Central Maine Power	23.4¢	27.4¢	+17%
Commonwealth Edison (IL)	15.2¢	17.7¢	+16%
Puget Sound Energy (WA)	14.6¢	17.0¢	+16%

By state

Weighted by customers, the average price rose in 46 states and the District of Columbia, and fell in four: California, North Carolina, Hawaii and Nevada. The largest rises were in the District of Columbia (+25%), New Jersey (+19%), Maine (+15%), Illinois (+14%), Maryland (+11%) and Washington (+10%).

New Jersey, Maryland, the District of Columbia and northern Illinois are all served by the PJM grid. PJM's capacity auction for the year from June 2025 cleared at several times the previous year's price, and utilities there passed the cost into their default supply rates that summer.

By kind of utility

Investor-owned utilities raised prices most, by a median 5.1%, against 4.2% for co-ops, 4.0% for city utilities and 3.2% for public power districts. Co-op, city utility or investor-owned compares what each charges.

What this does and does not tell you

These are averages of what households paid across each utility, not anyone's bill. Your own bill depends on your tariff and how much you use. A utility's filed tariffs also change on their own schedule, and the published ones can lag well behind what it charges; most US electricity rate data is out of date explains why this site dates every tariff it shows.

How we measured this

• Source: EIA-861 final data for 2024 and 2025, residential revenue divided by residential sales, for bundled service: customers who buy their electricity from the utility itself, rather than delivery alone.
• Utilities: the 1,199 with a residential price in both years that EIA lists as investor-owned, cooperative, municipal, or another public owner. Retail suppliers and community aggregators are left out, and so is NSTAR Electric (Eversource) in Massachusetts: its 2025 bundled price as reported sits barely above what it collected for delivery alone, which points to a reporting error.
• Households: EIA's 2025 residential customer counts. State figures take each utility's price in that state, weight it by the utility's customers there, and include states with at least 50,000 customers in the data.
• The largest increases are listed only for utilities with at least 100,000 residential customers, so that small utilities' swings do not dominate.

What to do with this

If your utility is among those that raised prices, check whether a different tariff now suits you better. The calculator prices every current tariff your utility files at your usage, fixed charges included.