US average retail electricity price
ObservedAverage price of electricity to all ultimate customers in the United States, including taxes.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Energy Information AdministrationfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- cents per kilowatthour
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US average retail electricity price, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
Average price of electricity to ultimate customers, total (all sectors), from the EIA Monthly Energy Review table 9.8, series ESTCUUS through the EIA API v2 total-energy route. Monthly, cents per kilowatthour, including taxes. Revenue divided by sales; a nominal price, not adjusted for inflation.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-electricity-retail-price
Energy
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, EIA Open Data API v2
- Series ID
ESTCUUSlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://www.eia.gov
- License and attribution
- License review requiredU.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Last source update
- not recorded(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:03 UTC
- Parser version
- eia-v2/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Monthly values are revised with the annual Electric Power Annual.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000 cents per kilowatthour.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet