EIA Form 861 · 2024

US Electricity Providers by Average Residential Rate

The 194 utilities serving 100.0K or more residential customers, what each charged on average, how many households it served, and how much power those households used.

194
Utilities covered
101.6M
Residential customers
9.98¢
Lowest avg price
43.63¢
Highest avg price

Across the 194 largest US residential electricity providers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release, average prices run from 9.98¢ per kWh (Champion Energy Services) to 43.63¢ (San Diego Gas & Electric Co) - a spread of 4.4×.

These utilities together served 101.6M residential customers. Ownership class tracks price closely: Political Subdivision 11.8¢, Municipal 13.0¢, Cooperative 14.1¢.

Average price by ownership class

Who owns a utility tracks its price more closely than most people expect. In the 2024 EIA Form 861 release, Political Subdivision utilities averaged 11.82¢ per kWh across 52 reporting companies, while Behind the Meter utilities averaged 18.96¢ - a gap of 7.1¢ per kWh between the cheapest and dearest ownership class. Cooperatives and municipal systems are not-for-profit and serve their own members or residents; investor-owned utilities answer to shareholders and set retail rates through a state regulatory commission. The averages below are computed across every utility in each class for that release.

Average residential price by utility ownership class, 2024
Ownership class Utilities reporting Avg ¢/kWh
Political Subdivision 52 11.82¢
Municipal 455 13.03¢
Cooperative 622 14.14¢
Federal 2 14.20¢
Retail Power Marketer 57 14.79¢
State 9 14.92¢
Investor Owned 183 17.36¢
Behind the Meter 139 18.96¢

Find your utility

Grouped by state, largest first. A utility appears here when it served 100.0K or more residential customers in the 2024 release. Smaller utilities are listed on their state's page rather than given one of their own.

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

  • Idaho Power Co - 11.76¢/kWh, 525.8K customers , ~10,988 kWh/yr each
  • Avista Corp - 11.62¢/kWh, 128.2K customers , ~10,578 kWh/yr each

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

  • PacifiCorp - 12.52¢/kWh, 947.2K customers , ~9,093 kWh/yr each

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

  • PacifiCorp - 13.44¢/kWh, 118.1K customers , ~8,869 kWh/yr each

How to read these figures

  • Each price is revenue divided by sales across a utility's bundled residential customers for the full year, an average, not a rate schedule.
  • Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility serves a given address or that a customer may choose it.
  • Per-customer annual usage is RateWatt's arithmetic: reported residential sales divided by reported residential customers.

Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Prices, customer counts and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage and the ownership-class averages are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.