State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Missouri Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Missouri costs 13.68¢ per kWh (+5.1% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Missouri's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 13.49¢/kWh, 22% below the US average. The rate runs below the national average on a mix that is still only 14% renewable. Commercial, industrial and generation-mix figures follow.
- 13.68¢
- May 2026 rate
- +5.1%
- year over year
- 13.49¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -22.0%
- vs US average
- 14%
- Renewable
- 2.9M
- Customers
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13.49¢/kWh residential, 10.63¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Missouri's residential average revenue per kWh is 13.49¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 10.63¢/kWh and an industrial average of 8.38¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 14% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 22% below the US average vs national residential average
- 14% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Missouri's residential electricity runs 13.49¢/kWh - 22% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 72% of other states, with 14% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 2.9M 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
- Missouri's industrial average rose from 7.87¢/kWh to 8.38¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +6.5%.
- Missouri's residential average rose from 12.91¢/kWh to 13.49¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.5%.
- Missouri's commercial average rose from 10.26¢/kWh to 10.63¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +3.6%.
Who generates Missouri's electricity
Missouri has 324 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 21,376 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Labadie , a conventional steam coal station operated by Union Electric Co - (MO) , rated 2,372 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc., Southwest Power Pool and Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Showing the 16 largest of 124 operable plants in Missouri by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labadie | Union Electric Co - (MO) | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 2,372 |
| Iatan | Evergy Metro | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,616 |
| New Madrid | Associated Electric Coop, Inc | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,200 |
| Callaway | Union Electric Co - (MO) | Nuclear | – | 1,190 |
| Thomas Hill | Associated Electric Coop, Inc | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,130 |
| Sioux | Union Electric Co - (MO) | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 974 |
| Hawthorn | Evergy Metro | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 960 |
| Dogwood Energy Facility | Dogwood Power Management, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 657 |
| State Line Combined Cycle | Empire District Electric Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 627 |
| Audrain Generating Station | Union Electric Co - (MO) | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 608 |
| John Twitty Energy Center | City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 563 |
| St Francis Energy Facility | Associated Electric Coop, Inc | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 478 |
| Taum Sauk | Union Electric Co - (MO) | Hydroelectric Pumped Storage | – | 440 |
| Northeast (MO) | Evergy Metro | Petroleum Liquids | – | 392 |
| High Prairie Wind Farm | Union Electric Co - (MO) | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 376 |
| South Harper | Evergy Missouri West | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 321 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 20 | 7,171 |
| Associated Electric Coop, Inc | 7 | 3,384 |
| Evergy Metro | 4 | 2,979 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 6 | 1,181 |
| Evergy Missouri West | 6 | 889 |
| City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) | 3 | 818 |
| Dogwood Power Management, LLC | 1 | 657 |
| Enel Green Power NA, Inc. | 1 | 300 |
| AES Clean Energy | 1 | 250 |
| Clear Creek Wind, LLC | 1 | 242 |
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
$4.9B
Commercial Revenue
$3.2B
Residential Sales
36.6M MWh
Residential Customers
2.9M
What Missouri's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Missouri pay 13.49¢/kWh in 2025, across 2.9M metered households, placing the state 22% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 10.63¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 8.38¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 36.6M MWh on roughly $4.9B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Households carry more of the load here than the headline suggests: Missouri ranks 37 of 51 residential but 28 industrial, the ordinary shape of a rate structure that treats industrial supply as the cheaper class. Coal carries the majority of Missouri's in-state generation at 63.1%, though not the whole grid: natural gas supplies 13.0% and nuclear a further 9.8%. It is the leading fuel in 9 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 13.6% of Missouri's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Missouri moved from 11.21¢/kWh in 2016 to 13.49¢/kWh in 2025, a 20.3% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include South Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, a useful peer set for a sanity check. A coal-led grid prices differently from a fuel-market-led one. Missouri's generators buy under multi-year contracts and recover plant capital through the rate base, so the rate above tends to move in regulated steps rather than with any commodity price, and the live question is what retiring units get replaced with. 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 Missouri can pay well above it.
-22.0%
Much cheaper vs the US residential average
72%
of states have higher rates — Below-average cost
14%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
2.9M
residential customers served
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Missouri generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 13.6% of generation.
- Coal63.1%
- Natural Gas13.0%
- Nuclear9.8%
- Windrenewable8.9%
- Solarrenewable3.3%
- Hydrorenewable1.4%
- Petroleum0.3%
- Pumped Storage0.2%
Residential Price History
Missouri residential average revenue per kWh moved from 11.21¢/kWh in 2016 to 13.49¢/kWh in 2025 (20.3% over the window).
- Missouri residential avg
- 13.49¢/kWh 20.3% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Missouri residential: 2016, 11.2¢
- Missouri residential: 2017, 11.6¢
- Missouri residential: 2018, 11.3¢
- Missouri residential: 2019, 11.1¢
- Missouri residential: 2020, 11.2¢
- Missouri residential: 2021, 11.4¢
- Missouri residential: 2022, 11.7¢
- Missouri residential: 2023, 12.6¢
- Missouri residential: 2024, 12.9¢
- Missouri residential: 2025, 13.5¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Missouri full trend →
Missouri Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Missouri households paid 13.49¢/kWh while businesses paid 10.63¢/kWh, a 26.9% 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 | 13.49¢/kWh | 10.63¢/kWh | 8.38¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 12.91¢/kWh | 10.26¢/kWh | 7.87¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 12.58¢/kWh | 10.14¢/kWh | 7.90¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 11.74¢/kWh | 9.55¢/kWh | 7.67¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 11.41¢/kWh | 9.17¢/kWh | 7.11¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 11.22¢/kWh | 8.93¢/kWh | 6.84¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 11.14¢/kWh | 9.07¢/kWh | 7.11¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 11.34¢/kWh | 9.40¢/kWh | 7.22¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 11.63¢/kWh | 9.47¢/kWh | 7.33¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 11.21¢/kWh | 9.26¢/kWh | 7.12¢/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 Missouri's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
13.49¢/kWh Top 30% most affordable More affordable than 72% 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 Missouri compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Missouri against the US average or a peer state.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by coal
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Using Missouri'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 Missouri builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Missouri sits 22% 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. Missouri price trend
- Compare Missouri 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 Missouri'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 Missouri
The 46 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Missouri 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | Investor Owned | 1.1M | 12.56¢ |
| Evergy Missouri West | Investor Owned | 305.6K | 12.55¢ |
| Evergy Metro | Investor Owned | 273.9K | 13.72¢ |
| Empire District Electric Co | Investor Owned | 142.5K | 14.99¢ |
| City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) | Municipal | 105.0K | 11.47¢ |
| Cuivre River Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 73.0K | 11.07¢ |
| City of Independence - (MO) | Municipal | 53.8K | 15.74¢ |
| City of Columbia - (MO) | Municipal | 45.7K | 13.94¢ |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 41.4K | 11.99¢ |
| White River Valley El Coop Inc | Cooperative | 39.2K | 14.30¢ |
| Laclede Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 35.0K | 11.73¢ |
| Boone Electric Coop | Cooperative | 33.8K | 13.40¢ |
| Ozark Border Electric Coop | Cooperative | 33.2K | 11.66¢ |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | Cooperative | 31.5K | 14.07¢ |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 31.1K | 15.18¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 46 reporting utilities. The 5 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.