State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Louisiana Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Louisiana costs 14.15¢ per kWh (+6.7% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Louisiana's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 12.57¢/kWh, 27.3% below the US average. The rate runs below the national average on a mix that is still only 4% renewable. Commercial, industrial and generation-mix figures follow.
- 14.15¢
- May 2026 rate
- +6.7%
- year over year
- 12.57¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -27.3%
- vs US average
- 4%
- Renewable
- 2.2M
- Customers
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12.57¢/kWh residential, 11.20¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Louisiana's residential average revenue per kWh is 12.57¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 11.20¢/kWh and an industrial average of 6.23¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 4% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 27.3% below the US average vs national residential average
- 4% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Louisiana's residential electricity runs 12.57¢/kWh - 27.3% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 94% of other states, with 4% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 2.2M 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
- Louisiana's industrial average rose from 5.61¢/kWh to 6.23¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +11.1%.
- Louisiana's residential average rose from 11.73¢/kWh to 12.57¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +7.2%.
- Louisiana's commercial average rose from 10.46¢/kWh to 11.20¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +7.1%.
Who generates Louisiana's electricity
Louisiana has 220 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 24,756 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Nine Mile Point , a natural gas steam turbine station operated by Entergy Louisiana LLC , rated 2,361 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. and Southwest Power Pool.
Showing the 16 largest of 92 operable plants in Louisiana by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nine Mile Point | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 2,361 |
| Brame Energy Center | Cleco Power LLC | Petroleum Coke | – | 1,551 |
| R S Nelson | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,129 |
| Big Cajun 2 | Louisiana Generating LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,098 |
| Waterford 3 | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Nuclear | – | 1,087 |
| Acadia Energy Center | Cleco Power LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,073 |
| Lake Charles Power | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,000 |
| St. Charles Power Station (LA) | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,000 |
| River Bend | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Nuclear | – | 968 |
| Little Gypsy | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 917 |
| Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant | Dow Chemical Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 891 |
| Taft Cogeneration Facility | Occidental Chemical Corporation | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 739 |
| Perryville Power Station | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 728 |
| Coughlin Power Station | Cleco Power LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 727 |
| Ouachita | Entergy Louisiana LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 719 |
| Magnolia Power | Magnolia Power Holdings LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 679 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Entergy Louisiana LLC | 15 | 11,474 |
| Cleco Power LLC | 5 | 3,425 |
| Louisiana Generating LLC | 2 | 1,472 |
| Dow Chemical Co | 1 | 891 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 3 | 829 |
| Westlake 2 US LLC | 4 | 789 |
| Occidental Chemical Corporation | 1 | 739 |
| Magnolia Power Holdings LLC | 1 | 679 |
| Carville Energy LLC | 1 | 521 |
| Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, LLC | 2 | 435 |
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
$4.0B
Commercial Revenue
$2.7B
Residential Sales
31.8M MWh
Residential Customers
2.2M
What Louisiana's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Louisiana pay 12.57¢/kWh in 2025, across 2.2M metered households, placing the state 27.3% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 11.20¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 6.23¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 31.8M MWh on roughly $4.0B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Louisiana prices its sectors in step: 48 of 51 residential against 49 industrial. A state this consistent is the exception rather than the rule, and it means the residential figure above is a fair proxy for how the whole grid is priced. Natural gas does not merely lead Louisiana's grid, it accounts for 74.3% of everything generated in-state, leaving every other fuel a minor share (the nearest, nuclear, reaches 15.3%). It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 3.7% of Louisiana's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Louisiana moved from 9.34¢/kWh in 2016 to 12.57¢/kWh in 2025, a 34.6% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Nebraska, Arkansas, Montana, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Louisiana'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. Read the number as a floor rather than a promise. A statewide average this far under the national figure is usually held down by a few large low-cost generators, and a household on the wrong side of a service-territory boundary in Louisiana can pay well above it.
-27.3%
Much cheaper vs the US residential average
94%
of states have higher rates — Among the cheapest
4%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
2.2M
residential customers served
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Louisiana generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 3.7% of generation.
- Natural Gas74.3%
- Nuclear15.3%
- Coal5.6%
- Solarrenewable2.8%
- Hydrorenewable0.8%
- Other0.6%
- Petroleum0.5%
- Biomassrenewable0.1%
Residential Price History
Louisiana residential average revenue per kWh moved from 9.34¢/kWh in 2016 to 12.57¢/kWh in 2025 (34.6% over the window).
- Louisiana residential avg
- 12.57¢/kWh 34.6% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Louisiana residential: 2016, 9.34¢
- Louisiana residential: 2017, 9.74¢
- Louisiana residential: 2018, 9.59¢
- Louisiana residential: 2019, 9.8¢
- Louisiana residential: 2020, 9.67¢
- Louisiana residential: 2021, 11¢
- Louisiana residential: 2022, 12.9¢
- Louisiana residential: 2023, 11.6¢
- Louisiana residential: 2024, 11.7¢
- Louisiana residential: 2025, 12.6¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Louisiana full trend →
Louisiana Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Louisiana households paid 12.57¢/kWh while businesses paid 11.20¢/kWh, a 12.2% residential premium, a moderate household-versus-business gap. 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 | 12.57¢/kWh | 11.20¢/kWh | 6.23¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 11.73¢/kWh | 10.46¢/kWh | 5.61¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 11.55¢/kWh | 10.45¢/kWh | 5.88¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 12.93¢/kWh | 11.93¢/kWh | 7.54¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 11.02¢/kWh | 10.23¢/kWh | 6.21¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 9.67¢/kWh | 8.85¢/kWh | 4.88¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 9.80¢/kWh | 8.91¢/kWh | 5.23¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 9.59¢/kWh | 8.85¢/kWh | 5.35¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 9.74¢/kWh | 8.95¢/kWh | 5.48¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 9.34¢/kWh | 8.59¢/kWh | 5.08¢/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 Louisiana's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
12.57¢/kWh Top 8% most affordable More affordable than 94% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
Each bar spans 5¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more states; the dashed marker locates this state. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.
Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Louisiana compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Louisiana against the US average or a peer state.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by natural gas
These grids also report natural gas as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
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Using Louisiana'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 Louisiana builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Louisiana sits 27.3% 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. Louisiana price trend
- Compare Louisiana 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 Louisiana's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
- 📊 EIA State Energy Profile, Louisiana State energy database
- ⚡ EIA Electric Power Monthly The monthly and annual price series behind every rate here
- 🌿 EIA generation by source The in-state generation shares quoted above
- 📖 Our methodology Source-to-figure lineage, and further federal energy references
Utilities serving Louisiana
The 22 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Louisiana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Louisiana LLC | Investor Owned | 957.5K | 11.05¢ |
| Cleco Power LLC | Investor Owned | 251.9K | 12.33¢ |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 207.0K | 13.46¢ |
| Entergy New Orleans, LLC | Investor Owned | 188.2K | 13.03¢ |
| Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) | Cooperative | 110.7K | 11.91¢ |
| Southwest Louisiana E M C | Cooperative | 108.4K | 11.55¢ |
| City of Lafayette - (LA) | Municipal | 60.0K | 10.12¢ |
| Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc | Cooperative | 50.9K | 11.85¢ |
| Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 40.1K | 13.70¢ |
| Claiborne Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 21.4K | 13.00¢ |
| City of Alexandria - (LA) | Municipal | 19.5K | 11.10¢ |
| South Louisiana Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | 17.0K | 13.48¢ |
| Concordia Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 11.9K | 13.36¢ |
| Northeast Louisiana Power Coop Inc. | Cooperative | 11.5K | 10.66¢ |
| Terrebonne Parish Consol Gov't | Municipal | 11.2K | 10.73¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 22 reporting utilities. The 6 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.