{"id":331224,"date":"2026-03-15T20:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331224\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:16:17","slug":"the-states-with-the-highest-and-lowest-electricity-prices-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331224\/","title":{"rendered":"The states with the highest and lowest electricity prices in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tortoise Capital senior portfolio manager and managing director Rob Thummel analyzes the energy sector on ‘Mornings with Maria.’<\/p>\n

Where Americans live can make a striking difference in what they pay to keep the lights on, with typical monthly electric bills in some states more than triple those in others.<\/p>\n

The latest figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration put the national average residential electricity price at 17.24 cents per kilowatt-hour, up 6% from a year earlier, based on average residential prices and an assumed monthly household use of 900 kilowatt-hours, a common benchmark for a typical home.<\/p>\n

AMERICANS HIT WITH SOARING ELECTRICITY BILLS AS PRICE HIKES OUTPACE INFLATION NATIONWIDE<\/a><\/p>\n

North Dakota has the lowest average residential rate in the country at 11.02 cents per kilowatt-hour, while Hawaii has the highest at 41.62 cents per kWh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Hawaii\u2019s island geography makes it something of an outlier, leaving California<\/a>, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York among the clearest mainland examples of high electricity costs. Nebraska, Idaho, Oklahoma and Arkansas also rank among the cheapest states.<\/p>\n

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Among mainland states, California is one of the most expensive, highlighting how widely electricity costs can differ by location. (Mark Felix\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Those differences are not spread evenly across the country. Many of the lower-cost states are clustered in the Plains and parts of the South, while some of the highest prices are concentrated in the Northeast and on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

For households already strained by inflation<\/a>, those differences can translate into a meaningful monthly burden, especially in places where heavy air conditioning or heating use pushes consumption higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Power transmission lines near Austin, Texas, on June 13, 2024. (Jordan Vonderhaar\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The wide gap reflects factors that go beyond politics, including fuel mix, weather, regulation, infrastructure costs and household energy<\/a> use.<\/p>\n

For consumers, however, the bottom line is simple: where they live can have a major impact on one of the few monthly bills they cannot easily avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tortoise Capital senior portfolio manager and managing director Rob Thummel analyzes the energy sector on ‘Mornings with Maria.’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-331224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}