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Where electricity and gas prices are heading, in every state, plus plain-English guides to your bill and your options. Official numbers, nothing estimated.
Price map
Home electricity prices, every stateLoading EIA data…
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Yearly average · total bill, all-in
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Market snapshot
US electricity, total bill
18.16¢/kWh
Aug 2026 · +3.4% vs a year ago
Ohio electricity, total bill
19.38¢/kWh
Aug 2026 · +10.4% vs a year ago
US supplier average (supply only)
12.55¢/kWh
2025 yearly average
Ohio supplier average (supply only)
8.64¢/kWh
2025 yearly average
US home gas, total bill
$15.34/Mcf
2025 yearly average
Wholesale gas (Henry Hub)
$2.99
per MMBtu · Oct 2026
“Total bill” = supply + delivery + taxes + fees, per unit. “Supply only” is the part you can shop for. Source: U.S. EIA.
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The words on your bill and in supplier offers, decoded.
Price to compare
Your utility's default supply price. A supplier has to beat it for you to save on supply.
Supply vs delivery
Supply is the energy itself (the part you can shop for). Delivery is the wires or pipes, always billed by your utility.
kWh
Kilowatt-hour, the unit for electricity. A typical home uses 700 to 1,000 kWh a month.
Mcf, Ccf, therm
Units for natural gas. 1 Mcf = 10 Ccf ≈ 10.37 therms.
Fixed vs variable
Fixed rates stay the same for the contract. Variable rates can change every month.
Early termination fee
What a supplier charges if you leave a fixed contract early. Always check it before you sign.
Where these numbers come from (sources, units, gaps)
Every number in the map, charts and utility lists comes from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). We don't estimate, smooth or fill in anything: a missing month stays missing. Data built 2026-11-06; electric through Aug 2026, gas through Aug 2026.
- Electricity, by state: average residential price in cents per kWh (revenue ÷ kWh sold, so fixed charges are included). Monthly from Jan 2001. Yearly from 1970: 1970–2000 from EIA's State Energy Data System (residential price in $ per million Btu × 0.3412), 2001 on from EIA's annual series.
- Natural gas, by state: average residential price in dollars per Mcf (thousand cubic feet, roughly 10 therms). Yearly from 1967, monthly from 1989 for most states. EIA withholds some months and years for some states; those show as gaps or hatched states.
- Electric utilities (2001–2025): EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers. Price = residential revenue ÷ residential sales for the utility's standard (bundled) service. In choice states the utility also reports delivery-only service for customers who buy power from a supplier; we show that separately and never as a full price. State totals follow EIA's rule (revenue from Parts A–D, sales and customers from Parts A, B, D) and match EIA's published state prices. Small utilities that file the short form in some years only report totals, so they have gaps.
- Gas utilities (1997–2024): EIA-176. Price = revenue ÷ volume for gas the utility sold to homes (line 1010). We checked it: adding up every utility this way reproduces EIA's state averages. Gas the utility only delivers for customers of a marketer (line 1110) is shown as delivery only.
- Prices are in each year's dollars (not adjusted for inflation). A state or utility average is not the price on your bill, and not what a shopper pays a supplier. Compare plans for that.
Sources
- EIA bulk electricity data (ELEC.zip), series ELEC.PRICE.{ST}-RES.M and .A
- EIA State Energy Data System prices (pr_all.csv), MSN ESRCD
- EIA bulk natural gas data (NG.zip), series NG.N3010{ST}3.M and .A
- EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, Sales_Ult_Cust
- EIA-176 natural gas annual respondent query system
- Map shapes: us-atlas (ISC license), from US Census Bureau boundaries.
U.S. Energy Information Administration data is public domain (U.S. government work). Source: EIA. EnergyMonkey is not affiliated with EIA. General information, not financial advice.