Reviewed October 14, 2026
Your bill went up. Usage and price are not the same story.
This desk reads the filings utilities already send the U.S. Energy Information Administration. 1,441 companies reported residential customers in 2025. Rate cases appear only when a state document has been read. Everything else is marked.
- U.S. residential, July 2026
- 18.31¢
- +4.9% vs July 2025
- 2025 average monthly bill
- $150.68
- 874 kWh a month
- Companies on the EIA frame
- 3,421
- 3,408 pages published
EIA Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A · Reviewed October 14, 2026
Why did my bill go up?
Enter two months. The checker splits the dollar change into usage and price.
Estimate a bill
Apply the EIA average price to a monthly kilowatt-hour number. It is not a tariff quote.
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What EIA has actually said about computing load, and what it has not put on your bill.
Largest utilities
All 100 largest| Utility | Customers | What the average covers | 2025 price | Vs 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FPL | 5,337,118 | Full service | 14.62¢ | +6.6% |
| PG&E | 5,055,556 | Delivery only | 24.60¢ | −4.5% |
| Southern California Edison | 4,627,247 | Full service | 31.48¢ | −2.9% |
| ComEd | 3,753,924 | Full service | 17.71¢ | +16.4% |
| Oncor | 3,545,814 | Delivery only | 5.64¢ | +8.6% |
| Con Edison | 3,088,999 | Full service | 36.74¢ | +3.0% |
| Duke Energy Carolinas | 2,543,170 | Full service | 13.43¢ | −3.8% |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2,529,039 | Delivery only | 5.41¢ | +9.7% |
| Dominion Energy Virginia | 2,517,958 | Full service | 15.07¢ | +6.9% |
| Georgia Power | 2,480,484 | Full service | 16.28¢ | +5.1% |
| DTE | 2,078,328 | Full service | 20.25¢ | +0.6% |
| PSE&G | 2,072,339 | Full service | 25.03¢ | +22.6% |
EIA-861 2025 final, residential customers and revenue · Reviewed October 14, 2026
State prices that rose fastest
July 2026 versus July 2025, residential, all utilities in the state mixed together.
- Hawaii 48.00¢ +21.9%
- New Hampshire 26.60¢ +16.7%
- Maine 32.41¢ +15.8%
- New York 29.90¢ +14.0%
- Maryland 21.41¢ +13.7%
- North Carolina 15.16¢ +13.4%
- Michigan 23.05¢ +12.2%
- Ohio 19.45¢ +11.9%
Largest average-price jumps
Utilities with at least 100,000 residential customers. Delivery-only averages are labeled and are not full bills.
- New York State Elec & Gas +23.3%
- Eversource Massachusetts +23.3%
- PSE&G +22.6%
- Homefield Energy +22.3%
- Community Power Coalition of NH +21.3%
- MC Squared Energy Services +19.9%
- Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX) +19.1%
- AES Ohio +18.4%
Before you blame the rate
Why is my electric bill so high?
A bill is kilowatt-hours times a price, plus fixed charges. In July 2026 the U.S. residential average was 18.31¢ per kWh, +4.9% from July 2025. The 2025 average monthly bill was $150.68 for 874 kWh. Your utility's page separates the latest annual average into a usage change and a price change.
Is the rate on this site the rate on my tariff?
No. Utility figures are average revenue per kilowatt-hour from EIA Form 861. They fold in customer charges and riders the utility reported. They are not the marginal price on a tariff sheet. OpenEI tariff rows were not retrieved for this build.
Where do the numbers come from?
EIA-861 final data for 2025, the 2024 file for the comparison, and Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A for state prices. Reviewed October 14, 2026. Anything without that paper trail is labeled needs verification.