How much do US homes pay for electricity?
Homes paid 17.3 cents per kilowatt-hour on average in 2025, about twice 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.
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The data
| Year | Cents per kilowatt-hour, residential |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 8.58 |
| 2002 | 8.44 |
| 2003 | 8.72 |
| 2004 | 8.95 |
| 2005 | 9.45 |
| 2006 | 10.4 |
| 2007 | 10.65 |
| 2008 | 11.26 |
| 2009 | 11.51 |
| 2010 | 11.54 |
| 2011 | 11.72 |
| 2012 | 11.88 |
| 2013 | 12.13 |
| 2014 | 12.52 |
| 2015 | 12.65 |
| 2016 | 12.55 |
| 2017 | 12.89 |
| 2018 | 12.87 |
| 2019 | 13.01 |
| 2020 | 13.15 |
| 2021 | 13.66 |
| 2022 | 15.04 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 16.48 |
| 2025 | 17.3 |