{"chart":{"slug":"electricity-prices-by-state","title":"Which states pay the most for electricity?","takeaway":"In 2025 homes in Hawaii paid 40.4 cents per kilowatt-hour, 3.4 times the 11.8 cents in North Dakota. The US average was 17.2 cents; California and Massachusetts were next most expensive. Prices are the average residential price in each state and D.C.","topic":"Energy","chart_type":"bar","ranking":true,"x_label":"State","y_label":"Cents per kilowatt-hour, residential","unit":null,"points_count":52,"source":{"name":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (retail sales)","url":"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (U.S. government work)","url":"https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php"},"data_as_of":"2025-12-31","updated_at":"2026-11-04T17:24:32.827Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/electricity-prices-by-state","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/electricity-prices-by-state","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/electricity-prices-by-state/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/electricity-prices-by-state/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/electricity-prices-by-state/embed","credit":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (retail sales), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/electricity-prices-by-state)","credit_html":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (retail sales), via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/electricity-prices-by-state\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":"U.S. average","zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"Hawaii","value":40.4},{"label":"California","value":31.35},{"label":"Massachusetts","value":30.41},{"label":"Rhode Island","value":29.48},{"label":"Connecticut","value":29.31},{"label":"Maine","value":27.69},{"label":"New York","value":26.39},{"label":"Alaska","value":26.11},{"label":"New Hampshire","value":24.53},{"label":"Vermont","value":22.79},{"label":"New Jersey","value":22.48},{"label":"District of Columbia","value":21.92},{"label":"Michigan","value":20.03},{"label":"Maryland","value":19.53},{"label":"Pennsylvania","value":19.29},{"label":"Wisconsin","value":18.08},{"label":"Illinois","value":17.67},{"label":"U.S. average","value":17.23},{"label":"Delaware","value":17.15},{"label":"Ohio","value":16.9},{"label":"Alabama","value":16.09},{"label":"Indiana","value":15.96},{"label":"Minnesota","value":15.83},{"label":"Colorado","value":15.69},{"label":"Oregon","value":15.46},{"label":"Texas","value":15.4},{"label":"West Virginia","value":15.39},{"label":"Virginia","value":15.28},{"label":"Arizona","value":15.26},{"label":"Florida","value":15.21},{"label":"South Carolina","value":15.12},{"label":"New Mexico","value":14.85},{"label":"Georgia","value":14.74},{"label":"Kansas","value":14.44},{"label":"Mississippi","value":14.03},{"label":"North Carolina","value":14.0},{"label":"Iowa","value":13.62},{"label":"Wyoming","value":13.37},{"label":"South Dakota","value":13.32},{"label":"Missouri","value":13.3},{"label":"Nevada","value":13.26},{"label":"Tennessee","value":13.22},{"label":"Oklahoma","value":13.21},{"label":"Washington","value":13.17},{"label":"Kentucky","value":13.13},{"label":"Utah","value":13.02},{"label":"Montana","value":12.99},{"label":"Arkansas","value":12.87},{"label":"Louisiana","value":12.52},{"label":"Nebraska","value":12.05},{"label":"Idaho","value":11.83},{"label":"North Dakota","value":11.82}],"annotations":[]},"docs":"https://chart.ly/developers","terms":"Free to use with credit: wherever you show or quote a chart's data, name Chartly with a link to that chart's url (each chart's credit line does both) and credit its source as its license asks.","credit":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (retail sales), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/electricity-prices-by-state)"}