Average Electric Bill by State, 2024

A higher price can accompany a lower average bill

In 2024, California’s average price was 31.97¢ per kWh, compared with 14.94¢ in Texas. But average monthly purchases were 503 and 1,096 kWh respectively. Their average bills were $160.86 and $163.72.

Weather, home size, heating fuel, efficiency, occupancy and solar can affect purchases. This table alone cannot assign a cause to a state difference or predict a moving household’s savings.

How the annual averages are calculated

For your own bill, the annotated bill guide separates supply, delivery, fixed fees and credits, with a private browser calculator.

We display the published averages from EIA Table 5A, cross-checked against the matching residential columns in Tables 1, 2 and 3. Annual sales are in megawatthours; revenue is in thousands of dollars.

• Monthly purchases = annual MWh sold × 1,000 ÷ customers ÷ 12.
• Monthly bill = annual revenue in thousands of dollars × 1,000 ÷ customers ÷ 12.
• Average price in cents/kWh = annual revenue in thousands of dollars ÷ annual MWh sold × 100.

These are ratios of utility totals. The US value uses national totals rather than a simple average of 51 state/DC averages. Display rounding means multiplying the two rounded table columns may differ slightly from the published bill. The CSV includes all three underlying totals.

“Customers” means residential utility accounts in this dataset, not a census count of people or unique homes. Purchases from the grid can differ from total household use when on-site solar supplies some electricity. The table is a mean, not a median, and does not describe each individual customer’s seasonal bills.

Source period: January–December 2024. EIA release: 2025-10-07. Retrieved: 2026-09-27. The source page listed October 2026 as its next release when checked; this page retains the reviewed 2024 dataset until a newer set has been reconciled.

Primary sources

• Residential customer counts — EIA Table 1 (PDF)
• Residential sales, MWh — EIA Table 2 (PDF)
• Residential revenue, thousands of dollars — EIA Table 3 (PDF)
• Residential average monthly bills — EIA Table 5A (PDF)
• EIA publication and release dates
• EIA: grid purchases versus total household electricity use
• EIA data reuse terms