State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Oregon Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Oregon costs 16.27¢ per kWh (+2.3% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Oregon's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 15.37¢/kWh, 11.2% below the US average. That is a below-average rate alongside 66% renewable generation, the combination the national debate usually treats as a trade-off. The sector and fuel detail below shows how it is built.
- 16.27¢
- May 2026 rate
- +2.3%
- year over year
- 15.37¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -11.2%
- vs US average
- 66%
- Renewable
- 1.9M
- Customers
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15.37¢/kWh residential, 10.56¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Oregon's residential average revenue per kWh is 15.37¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 10.56¢/kWh and an industrial average of 8.28¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 66% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 11.2% below the US average vs national residential average
- 66% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Oregon's residential electricity runs 15.37¢/kWh - 11.2% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 50% of other states, with 66% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 1.9M 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
- Oregon's residential average rose from 14.70¢/kWh to 15.37¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.6%.
- Oregon's commercial average rose from 10.11¢/kWh to 10.56¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.5%.
- Oregon's industrial average rose from 8.05¢/kWh to 8.28¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +2.9%.
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Oregon generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 65.6% of generation.
- Hydrorenewable45.2%
- Natural Gas34.4%
- Windrenewable14.7%
- Solarrenewable5.3%
- Geothermalrenewable0.3%
- Biomassrenewable0.1%
Who generates Oregon's electricity
Oregon has 464 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 16,742 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is John Day , a conventional hydroelectric station operated by USACE Northwestern Division , rated 1,417 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Bonneville Power Administration, Portland General Electric Company and Avangrid Renewables LLC.
Showing the 16 largest of 291 operable plants in Oregon by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Day | USACE Northwestern Division | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 1,417 |
| The Dalles | USACE Northwestern Division | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 1,209 |
| Bonneville | USACE Northwestern Division | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 972 |
| McNary | USACE Northwestern Division | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 851 |
| Hermiston Power Partnership | Hermiston Power Partnership | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 629 |
| Beaver | Portland General Electric Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 493 |
| Klamath Cogeneration Plant | Klamath Energy LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 490 |
| Hermiston Generating Plant | Hermiston Generating Co LP | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 464 |
| Hells Canyon | Idaho Power Co | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 453 |
| Biglow Canyon Wind Farm | Portland General Electric Co | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 450 |
| Carty Generating Station | Portland General Electric Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 416 |
| Port Westward | Portland General Electric Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 392 |
| Round Butte | Portland General Electric Co | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 353 |
| Klondike Windpower III | Avangrid Power LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 298 |
| Coyote Springs II | Avista Corp | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 290 |
| Horseshoe Bend Wind LLC | Caithness Shepherds Flat LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 290 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| USACE Northwestern Division | 12 | 4,888 |
| Portland General Electric Co | 18 | 3,220 |
| Avangrid Power LLC | 15 | 1,861 |
| Caithness Shepherds Flat LLC | 3 | 845 |
| Idaho Power Co | 2 | 669 |
| Hermiston Power Partnership | 1 | 629 |
| Klamath Energy LLC | 2 | 590 |
| Hermiston Generating Co LP | 1 | 464 |
| PacifiCorp | 18 | 364 |
| Avista Corp | 1 | 290 |
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.
What Oregon's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Oregon pay 15.37¢/kWh in 2025, across 1.9M metered households, placing the state 11.2% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 10.56¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 8.28¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 19.8M MWh on roughly $3.0B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Oregon prices its sectors in step: 26 of 51 residential against 29 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. No single fuel reaches half of Oregon's in-state generation. Hydro leads at 45.2%, with natural gas at 34.4% close enough behind that the mix reads as a balance rather than a clear lead. It is the leading fuel in 4 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 65.6% of Oregon's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Oregon moved from 10.66¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.37¢/kWh in 2025, a 44.2% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include West Virginia, Arizona, Virginia, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Hydro is the one leading fuel whose availability is weather, not a purchase. A dry year in Oregon means replacing water with something bought on a market, so the rate above is stable in ordinary years and carries a drought exposure no fuel contract can hedge. A state average sitting modestly under the national one is the easiest kind to misread, because the spread between utilities inside Oregon can be wider than the gap to the national figure it is being compared against.
-11.2%
Cheaper vs the US residential average
50%
of states have higher rates — Mid-range cost
66%
Significant renewable — above the 25% US mix
1.9M
residential customers served
Residential Price History
Oregon residential average revenue per kWh moved from 10.66¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.37¢/kWh in 2025 (44.2% over the window).
- Oregon residential avg
- 15.37¢/kWh 44.2% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Oregon residential: 2016, 10.7¢
- Oregon residential: 2017, 10.7¢
- Oregon residential: 2018, 11¢
- Oregon residential: 2019, 11¢
- Oregon residential: 2020, 11.2¢
- Oregon residential: 2021, 11.4¢
- Oregon residential: 2022, 11.4¢
- Oregon residential: 2023, 12.7¢
- Oregon residential: 2024, 14.7¢
- Oregon residential: 2025, 15.4¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Oregon full trend →
Oregon Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Oregon households paid 15.37¢/kWh while businesses paid 10.56¢/kWh, a 45.5% residential premium, one of the widest household-versus-business gaps in the country. 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 | 15.37¢/kWh | 10.56¢/kWh | 8.28¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 14.70¢/kWh | 10.11¢/kWh | 8.05¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 12.73¢/kWh | 9.92¢/kWh | 7.52¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 11.42¢/kWh | 9.35¢/kWh | 6.81¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 11.37¢/kWh | 9.10¢/kWh | 5.97¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 11.17¢/kWh | 9.00¢/kWh | 5.70¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 11.01¢/kWh | 8.85¢/kWh | 5.86¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 10.98¢/kWh | 8.91¢/kWh | 5.86¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 10.66¢/kWh | 8.86¢/kWh | 5.98¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 10.66¢/kWh | 8.91¢/kWh | 6.05¢/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 Oregon's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
15.37¢/kWh Top 51% most affordable More affordable than 50% 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 Oregon compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Oregon against the US average or a peer state.
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$3.0B
Commercial Revenue
$2.7B
Residential Sales
19.8M MWh
Residential Customers
1.9M
Using Oregon's numbers
A grid this renewable is close to the end of the supply-build phase, so Oregon's rate is increasingly set by what it costs to keep power available in the hours renewables do not cover, not by adding more of them.
- Oregon sits 11.2% 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. Oregon price trend
- Compare Oregon 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.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by hydro
These grids also report hydro as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
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Where Oregon'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 Oregon
The 26 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Oregon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland General Electric Co | Investor Owned | 828.9K | 18.19¢ |
| PacifiCorp | Investor Owned | 547.2K | 14.02¢ |
| City of Eugene - (OR) | Municipal | 89.6K | 13.07¢ |
| Central Lincoln People's Ut Dt | Political Subdivision | 35.9K | 10.93¢ |
| Central Electric Coop Inc - (OR) | Cooperative | 34.6K | 9.75¢ |
| City of Springfield - (OR) | Municipal | 29.9K | 8.10¢ |
| Oregon Trail El Cons Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 26.0K | 10.08¢ |
| Tillamook Peoples Utility Dist | Political Subdivision | 20.1K | 11.82¢ |
| Emerald People's Utility Dist | Political Subdivision | 20.0K | 11.05¢ |
| Consumers Power, Inc | Cooperative | 18.8K | 13.01¢ |
| Midstate Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 18.6K | 10.52¢ |
| Salem Electric - (OR) | Cooperative | 18.4K | 11.02¢ |
| City of McMinnville - (OR) | Municipal | 17.2K | 7.56¢ |
| Columbia River Peoples Ut Dist | Political Subdivision | 16.4K | 9.27¢ |
| Coos-Curry Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 15.9K | 13.31¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 26 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.