{"chart":{"slug":"us-electricity-price","title":"How much do US homes pay for electricity?","takeaway":"Homes paid 17.3 cents per kilowatt-hour on average in 2025, about 2 times the 8.6 cents of 2001. Each point is the average residential price across all US utilities that year, in cents of the day, not adjusted for inflation; EIA's survey starts in 2001.","topic":"Energy","chart_type":"line","ranking":false,"x_label":"Year","y_label":"Cents per kilowatt-hour, residential","unit":null,"points_count":25,"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":"2026-11-04T13:22:29.774Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/us-electricity-price","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/us-electricity-price","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/us-electricity-price/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/us-electricity-price/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/us-electricity-price/embed","credit":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (retail sales), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/us-electricity-price)","credit_html":"U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser (retail sales), via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/us-electricity-price\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":null,"zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"2001","value":8.58},{"label":"2002","value":8.44},{"label":"2003","value":8.72},{"label":"2004","value":8.95},{"label":"2005","value":9.45},{"label":"2006","value":10.4},{"label":"2007","value":10.65},{"label":"2008","value":11.26},{"label":"2009","value":11.51},{"label":"2010","value":11.54},{"label":"2011","value":11.72},{"label":"2012","value":11.88},{"label":"2013","value":12.13},{"label":"2014","value":12.52},{"label":"2015","value":12.65},{"label":"2016","value":12.55},{"label":"2017","value":12.89},{"label":"2018","value":12.87},{"label":"2019","value":13.01},{"label":"2020","value":13.15},{"label":"2021","value":13.66},{"label":"2022","value":15.04},{"label":"2023","value":16.0},{"label":"2024","value":16.48},{"label":"2025","value":17.3}],"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/us-electricity-price)"}