State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Georgia Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Georgia costs 15.84¢ per kWh (+5.7% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Georgia's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 14.73¢/kWh, 14.9% below the US average. The rate runs below the national average on a mix that is still only 10% renewable. Commercial, industrial and generation-mix figures follow.
- 15.84¢
- May 2026 rate
- +5.7%
- year over year
- 14.73¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -14.9%
- vs US average
- 10%
- Renewable
- 4.9M
- Customers
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14.73¢/kWh residential, 11.50¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Georgia's residential average revenue per kWh is 14.73¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 11.50¢/kWh and an industrial average of 7.81¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 10% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 14.9% below the US average vs national residential average
- 10% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Georgia's residential electricity runs 14.73¢/kWh - 14.9% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 62% of other states, with 10% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 4.9M reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- Georgia's industrial average rose from 7.21¢/kWh to 7.81¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +8.3%.
- Georgia's commercial average rose from 10.87¢/kWh to 11.50¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +5.8%.
- Georgia's residential average rose from 14.08¢/kWh to 14.73¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.6%.
Who generates Georgia's electricity
Georgia has 500 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 39,763 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Vogtle , a nuclear station operated by Georgia Power Co , rated 4,530 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Southern Company Services, Inc. - Trans, Southeastern Power Administration and Tennessee Valley Authority.
Showing the 16 largest of 248 operable plants in Georgia by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vogtle | Georgia Power Co | Nuclear | – | 4,530 |
| Bowen | Georgia Power Co | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 3,200 |
| Scherer | Georgia Power Co | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 2,580 |
| Jack McDonough | Georgia Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 2,535 |
| Edwin I Hatch | Georgia Power Co | Nuclear | – | 1,759 |
| Thomas A Smith Energy Facility | Oglethorpe Power Corporation | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,353 |
| McIntosh Combined Cycle Facility | Georgia Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,316 |
| Wansley Combined Cycle | Southern Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,185 |
| Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric Plant | Oglethorpe Power Corporation | Hydroelectric Pumped Storage | – | 1,035 |
| Tenaska Georgia Generation Facility | Tenaska Georgia Partners LP | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 945 |
| Dahlberg | Southern Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 746 |
| Yates | Georgia Power Co | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 714 |
| McIntosh | Georgia Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 658 |
| Washington County Power LLC | CAMS (Georgia) Washington County Power | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 623 |
| Edward L. Addison Generating Plant | Southern Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 592 |
| AL Sandersville LLC | CAMS (Georgia) AL Sandersville | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 576 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | 40 | 19,436 |
| Oglethorpe Power Corporation | 11 | 6,093 |
| Southern Power Co | 9 | 2,914 |
| USCE-Mobile District | 5 | 1,014 |
| Tenaska Georgia Partners LP | 1 | 945 |
| USCE-Savannah District | 2 | 738 |
| CAMS (Georgia) Washington County Power | 1 | 623 |
| CAMS (Georgia) AL Sandersville | 1 | 576 |
| Municipal Electric Authority | 1 | 463 |
| RWE Clean Energy | 2 | 376 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$9.3B
Commercial Revenue
$6.5B
Residential Sales
63.4M MWh
Residential Customers
4.9M
What Georgia's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Georgia pay 14.73¢/kWh in 2025, across 4.9M metered households, placing the state 14.9% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 11.50¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 7.81¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 63.4M MWh on roughly $9.3B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Georgia's industrial rate ranks 36 of 51 while its residential rate ranks 32, so the gap between what a factory and a household pay is narrower here than in most states. No single fuel reaches half of Georgia's in-state generation. Natural gas leads at 39.7%, with nuclear at 35.7% close enough behind that the mix reads as a balance rather than a clear lead. It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 10.4% of Georgia's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Georgia moved from 11.50¢/kWh in 2016 to 14.73¢/kWh in 2025, a 28.1% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Kansas, South Carolina, New Mexico, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Georgia's residential rate tracks the fuel market with a lag: a gas-price winter shows up on bills months later, and a cheap gas year works its way through the same way. A state average sitting modestly under the national one is the easiest kind to misread, because the spread between utilities inside Georgia can be wider than the gap to the national figure it is being compared against.
-14.9%
Cheaper vs the US residential average
62%
of states have higher rates — Below-average cost
10%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
4.9M
residential customers served
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Georgia generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 10.4% of generation.
- Natural Gas39.7%
- Nuclear35.7%
- Coal14.0%
- Solarrenewable8.3%
- Hydrorenewable2.1%
- Petroleum0.2%
Residential Price History
Georgia residential average revenue per kWh moved from 11.50¢/kWh in 2016 to 14.73¢/kWh in 2025 (28.1% over the window).
- Georgia residential avg
- 14.73¢/kWh 28.1% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Georgia residential: 2016, 11.5¢
- Georgia residential: 2017, 11.9¢
- Georgia residential: 2018, 11.5¢
- Georgia residential: 2019, 11.8¢
- Georgia residential: 2020, 12¢
- Georgia residential: 2021, 12.5¢
- Georgia residential: 2022, 13.8¢
- Georgia residential: 2023, 13.7¢
- Georgia residential: 2024, 14.1¢
- Georgia residential: 2025, 14.7¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Georgia full trend →
Georgia Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Georgia households paid 14.73¢/kWh while businesses paid 11.50¢/kWh, a 28.1% residential premium, a wider household-versus-business gap than most states. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.73¢/kWh | 11.50¢/kWh | 7.81¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 14.08¢/kWh | 10.87¢/kWh | 7.21¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 13.69¢/kWh | 10.70¢/kWh | 6.88¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 13.80¢/kWh | 12.10¢/kWh | 8.65¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 12.51¢/kWh | 10.61¢/kWh | 6.49¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 12.02¢/kWh | 10.08¢/kWh | 5.77¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 11.76¢/kWh | 10.02¢/kWh | 6.17¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 11.47¢/kWh | 9.79¢/kWh | 6.00¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 11.90¢/kWh | 10.09¢/kWh | 5.96¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 11.50¢/kWh | 9.81¢/kWh | 5.84¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Where Georgia's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
14.73¢/kWh Top 40% most affordable More affordable than 62% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
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Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Georgia compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Georgia against the US average or a peer state.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by natural gas
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Using Georgia's numbers
With renewables still a small share of generation here, the figures above describe a mix that has further to travel than most. Watch what Georgia builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Georgia sits 14.9% below the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. Georgia price trend
- Compare Georgia side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
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Where Georgia's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
Utilities serving Georgia
The 60 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Georgia to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | Investor Owned | 2.5M | 15.49¢ |
| Jackson Electric Member Corp - (GA) | Cooperative | 239.6K | 11.38¢ |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 200.6K | 11.41¢ |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | Cooperative | 181.6K | 11.54¢ |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | Cooperative | 139.0K | 12.22¢ |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 131.9K | 12.99¢ |
| Snapping Shoals El Member Corp | Cooperative | 105.3K | 12.37¢ |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 90.2K | 12.18¢ |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 83.7K | 13.57¢ |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | Cooperative | 83.0K | 12.80¢ |
| Colquitt Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 65.7K | 13.20¢ |
| Central Georgia El Member Corp | Cooperative | 61.2K | 12.24¢ |
| Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation | Cooperative | 54.1K | 13.99¢ |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | Cooperative | 53.3K | 13.38¢ |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 50.3K | 12.41¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 60 reporting utilities. The 7 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.