State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Mississippi Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Mississippi costs 16.16¢ per kWh (+8.9% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Mississippi's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 14.03¢/kWh, 18.9% 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.
- 16.16¢
- May 2026 rate
- +8.9%
- year over year
- 14.03¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -18.9%
- vs US average
- 4%
- Renewable
- 1.4M
- Customers
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14.03¢/kWh residential, 13.03¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Mississippi's residential average revenue per kWh is 14.03¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 13.03¢/kWh and an industrial average of 7.38¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 4% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 18.9% below the US average vs national residential average
- 4% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Mississippi's residential electricity runs 14.03¢/kWh - 18.9% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 66% of other states, with 4% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 1.4M 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
- Mississippi's industrial average rose from 6.81¢/kWh to 7.38¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +8.4%.
- Mississippi's commercial average rose from 12.32¢/kWh to 13.03¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +5.8%.
- Mississippi's residential average rose from 13.39¢/kWh to 14.03¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.8%.
Who generates Mississippi's electricity
Mississippi has 149 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 16,530 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Victor J Daniel Jr , a natural gas fired combined cycle station operated by Mississippi Power Co , rated 2,147 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Tennessee Valley Authority, Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. and Southern Company Services, Inc. - Trans.
Showing the 16 largest of 62 operable plants in Mississippi by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor J Daniel Jr | Mississippi Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 2,147 |
| Grand Gulf | System Energy Resources, Inc | Nuclear | – | 1,397 |
| Magnolia Power Plant | Tennessee Valley Authority | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 918 |
| Batesville Generation Facility | Cooperative Energy | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 858 |
| Choctaw County | Entergy Mississippi LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 781 |
| TVA Southaven Combined Cycle | Tennessee Valley Authority | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 780 |
| Caledonia | Tennessee Valley Authority | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 765 |
| Jack Watson | Mississippi Power Co | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 754 |
| Quantum Choctaw Power LLC | Tennessee Valley Authority | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 710 |
| Ratcliffe | Mississippi Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 704 |
| Gerald Andrus | Entergy Mississippi LLC | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 701 |
| R D Morrow | Cooperative Energy | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 531 |
| Hinds Energy Facility | Entergy Mississippi LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 485 |
| Moselle | Cooperative Energy | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 477 |
| Attala | Entergy Mississippi LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 459 |
| Red Hills Generating Facility | Choctaw Generation L.P, L.L.L.P. | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 440 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | 6 | 3,777 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | 6 | 3,475 |
| Entergy Mississippi LLC | 4 | 2,426 |
| Cooperative Energy | 6 | 2,242 |
| System Energy Resources, Inc | 1 | 1,397 |
| Origis Energy USA, Inc | 3 | 700 |
| Choctaw Generation L.P, L.L.L.P. | 1 | 440 |
| Clarksdale Public Utilities | 2 | 358 |
| AES Clean Energy | 1 | 185 |
| Pearl River Solar Park, LLC | 1 | 175 |
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
$2.7B
Commercial Revenue
$1.9B
Residential Sales
19.1M MWh
Residential Customers
1.4M
What Mississippi's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Mississippi pay 14.03¢/kWh in 2025, across 1.4M metered households, placing the state 18.9% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 13.03¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 7.38¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 19.1M MWh on roughly $2.7B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Mississippi's industrial rate ranks 40 of 51 while its residential rate ranks 34, so the gap between what a factory and a household pay is narrower here than in most states. Natural gas does not merely lead Mississippi's grid, it accounts for 75.2% of everything generated in-state, leaving every other fuel a minor share (the nearest, nuclear, reaches 15.0%). It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 4.4% of Mississippi's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Mississippi moved from 10.47¢/kWh in 2016 to 14.03¢/kWh in 2025, a 34.0% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include North Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Mississippi'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 Mississippi can pay well above it.
-18.9%
Cheaper vs the US residential average
66%
of states have higher rates — Below-average cost
4%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
1.4M
residential customers served
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Mississippi generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 4.4% of generation.
- Natural Gas75.2%
- Nuclear15.0%
- Coal5.4%
- Solarrenewable3.8%
- Windrenewable0.7%
Residential Price History
Mississippi residential average revenue per kWh moved from 10.47¢/kWh in 2016 to 14.03¢/kWh in 2025 (34.0% over the window).
- Mississippi residential avg
- 14.03¢/kWh 34% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Mississippi residential: 2016, 10.5¢
- Mississippi residential: 2017, 11.1¢
- Mississippi residential: 2018, 11.1¢
- Mississippi residential: 2019, 11.3¢
- Mississippi residential: 2020, 11.2¢
- Mississippi residential: 2021, 11.6¢
- Mississippi residential: 2022, 12.4¢
- Mississippi residential: 2023, 13.2¢
- Mississippi residential: 2024, 13.4¢
- Mississippi residential: 2025, 14¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Mississippi full trend →
Mississippi Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Mississippi households paid 14.03¢/kWh while businesses paid 13.03¢/kWh, a 7.7% residential premium, an unusually narrow 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 | 14.03¢/kWh | 13.03¢/kWh | 7.38¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 13.39¢/kWh | 12.32¢/kWh | 6.81¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 13.23¢/kWh | 12.37¢/kWh | 6.96¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 12.41¢/kWh | 11.76¢/kWh | 6.71¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 11.56¢/kWh | 10.81¢/kWh | 5.95¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 11.17¢/kWh | 10.38¢/kWh | 5.63¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 11.27¢/kWh | 10.52¢/kWh | 5.85¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 11.12¢/kWh | 10.43¢/kWh | 6.00¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 11.08¢/kWh | 10.17¢/kWh | 5.99¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 10.47¢/kWh | 9.57¢/kWh | 5.79¢/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 Mississippi's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
14.03¢/kWh Top 36% most affordable More affordable than 66% 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 Mississippi compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Mississippi 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 Mississippi'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 Mississippi builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Mississippi sits 18.9% 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. Mississippi price trend
- Compare Mississippi 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 Mississippi'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, Mississippi 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 Mississippi
The 40 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Mississippi 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 Mississippi LLC | Investor Owned | 384.6K | 13.21¢ |
| Mississippi Power Co | Investor Owned | 157.4K | 14.47¢ |
| Coast Electric Power Assn - (MS) | Cooperative | 82.5K | 13.81¢ |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | Cooperative | 72.3K | 13.46¢ |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | 65.2K | 14.01¢ |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | Cooperative | 52.1K | 14.25¢ |
| 4-County Electric Power Assn | Cooperative | 41.1K | 12.88¢ |
| Dixie Electric Power Assn - (MS) | Cooperative | 37.8K | 13.44¢ |
| Tombigbee Electric Power Assn | Cooperative | 37.3K | 12.23¢ |
| Magnolia Electric Power Assn | Cooperative | 31.1K | 15.00¢ |
| Central Electric Power Assn - (MS) | Cooperative | 30.9K | 12.22¢ |
| Northcentral Mississippi E P A | Cooperative | 29.1K | 12.52¢ |
| North East Mississippi EPA | Cooperative | 26.1K | 13.39¢ |
| Southwest Mississippi E P A | Cooperative | 23.2K | 15.03¢ |
| Tallahatchie Valley E P A | Cooperative | 21.5K | 12.41¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 40 reporting utilities. The 2 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.