Jan 082010
The following table ranks the residential electricity prices for each state, plus the District of Columbia, from the cheapest electricity to the most expensive. The links below go to tables that rank the states by:
- business electricity prices
- industrial electricity prices
- electricity prices averaged across 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 may also wish to look at our guide to finding the cheapest electricity supplier!
| Rank | State | Cents per kWh |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Idaho | 7.62 |
| 2 | North Dakota | 7.63 |
| 3 | Washington | 7.78 |
| 3 | West Virginia | 7.78 |
| 5 | Kentucky | 8.39 |
| 6 | South Dakota | 8.44 |
| 7 | Louisiana | 8.46 |
| 8 | Wyoming | 8.51 |
| 9 | Nebraska | 8.58 |
| 10 | Missouri | 8.63 |
| 11 | Utah | 8.65 |
| 12 | Oregon | 8.76 |
| 13 | Oklahoma | 8.80 |
| 14 | Montana | 8.87 |
| 15 | Tennessee | 9.31 |
| 16 | Indiana | 9.43 |
| 17 | Arkansas | 9.56 |
| 18 | Kansas | 9.78 |
| 19 | Colorado | 9.92 |
| 20 | Minnesota | 10.10 |
| 20 | Mississippi | 10.10 |
| 22 | North Carolina | 10.13 |
| 23 | New Mexico | 10.19 |
| 24 | Iowa | 10.27 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 10.27 |
| 26 | Georgia | 10.32 |
| 27 | Alabama | 10.64 |
| 28 | Ohio | 10.70 |
| 29 | Virginia | 10.74 |
| 30 | Arizona | 10.86 |
| 31 | Illinois | 11.39 |
| 32 | Pennsylvania | 11.72 |
| 33 | Michigan | 11.85 |
| 34 | Wisconsin | 12.10 |
| 35 | Florida | 12.35 |
| 36 | Nevada | 12.74 |
| 37 | Texas | 12.76 |
| 38 | District of Columbia | 13.53 |
| 39 | Delaware | 14.07 |
| 40 | Vermont | 15.00 |
| 41 | Maryland | 15.18 |
| 42 | California | 15.19 |
| 43 | Maine | 15.42 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 15.52 |
| 45 | New Hampshire | 16.44 |
| 46 | New Jersey | 16.62 |
| 47 | Alaska | 17.24 |
| 48 | Massachusetts | 17.39 |
| 49 | New York | 18.42 |
| 50 | Connecticut | 20.24 |
| 51 | Hawaii | 23.48 |