District of Columbia Electricity

What District of Columbia's Electricity Data Tells Us

District of Columbia's residential rate stands at 17.71¢/kWh for 2024, billed to 318.8K metered households statewide, which puts it 7.5% higher than the national residential average of 16.48¢/kWh. On the commercial side, the rate is 17.07¢/kWh while industrial-sector power is priced at 10.80¢/kWh, reflecting the cost differentials that come from voltage level, load factor, and contract length across EIA Form-861 survey respondents. 2.4M MWh of residential power was sold over the year, translating to roughly $433.1M in revenue for utilities, a useful yardstick for sizing local demand against the grid mix that serves it.

District of Columbia's power comes primarily from solar, which accounts for 65.0% of in-state generation, with natural gas providing 22.4%, and biomass rounding out the top three at 12.6%. District of Columbia draws 77.6% of its electricity from renewable sources, solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass together, a figure that matters because each renewable megawatt-hour displaces fuel costs that otherwise flow through to retail bills. A portfolio this clean typically carries lower marginal generation costs once capacity is built, though transmission upgrades can offset part of the saving.

Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in District of Columbia moved from 12.29¢/kWh in 2016 to 17.71¢/kWh in 2024, a 44.1% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin, a useful peer set for a sanity check. For anyone negotiating a supplier contract, weighing an energy-efficiency upgrade, or modeling a household budget, the combination of current rate, multi-year trend, and generation mix offers a sturdier footing than any single data point on its own.