Jan 082010
The following table ranks the industrial electricity prices for each state, plus the District of Columbia, from cheapest to most expensive. You can also find tables that rank the states by:
- residential electricity prices
- business electricity prices
- electricity prices averaged over all sectors
All of these tables are based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration for September 2009. I hope that this is useful in your quest to find cheap electricity. You might also want to check out our guide to finding the cheapest electricity supplier!
| Rank | State | Cents per kWh |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyoming | 4.81 |
| 2 | Utah | 4.90 |
| 3 | Kentucky | 4.99 |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 5.10 |
| 5 | West Virginia | 5.20 |
| 6 | Washington | 5.25 |
| 7 | Oregon | 5.26 |
| 8 | Idaho | 5.31 |
| 9 | Iowa | 5.38 |
| 9 | Montana | 5.38 |
| 11 | Louisiana | 5.53 |
| 12 | Missouri | 5.57 |
| 13 | South Dakota | 5.66 |
| 14 | North Dakota | 5.81 |
| 15 | Indiana | 5.82 |
| 15 | Nebraska | 5.82 |
| 17 | New Mexico | 5.83 |
| 17 | South Carolina | 5.83 |
| 19 | North Carolina | 6.02 |
| 20 | Arkansas | 6.07 |
| 21 | Alabama | 6.17 |
| 22 | Colorado | 6.25 |
| 23 | Kansas | 6.27 |
| 24 | Georgia | 6.29 |
| 25 | Minnesota | 6.42 |
| 26 | Arizona | 6.68 |
| 27 | Mississippi | 6.72 |
| 27 | Tennessee | 6.72 |
| 29 | Wisconsin | 6.83 |
| 30 | Ohio | 6.89 |
| 31 | Virginia | 6.93 |
| 32 | Texas | 7.14 |
| 33 | Pennsylvania | 7.22 |
| 34 | Michigan | 7.30 |
| 35 | Illinois | 7.62 |
| 36 | Nevada | 8.31 |
| 37 | Delaware | 9.31 |
| 38 | Florida | 9.39 |
| 39 | Vermont | 9.41 |
| 40 | Maryland | 10.05 |
| 41 | Maine | 10.18 |
| 42 | District of Columbia | 10.32 |
| 43 | California | 10.46 |
| 44 | New York | 10.89 |
| 45 | Massachusetts | 11.60 |
| 46 | New Jersey | 11.64 |
| 47 | Rhode Island | 12.61 |
| 48 | Alaska | 12.97 |
| 49 | New Hampshire | 13.76 |
| 50 | Connecticut | 15.10 |
| 51 | Hawaii | 17.41 |