Wonder if you're paying a lot for electricity? Does your state have any incentives or demand response programs you can take advantage of? Below is a table of electric prices around the country for the largest 25 or so U.S. cities, based on data from the Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy. If you want to pay less, visit our page on Utility Rates Analysis for more information. We will be updating this information shortly; contact us if you'd like to receive the update when ready.

If you are in the Southeast, you'll see prices are lower than national averages, but rising. Here's a 15-year picture.

Cost of Electricity

Only residential data was available but is representative of prices in general.

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Energy Efficiency Programs: can be either 1) public purpose programs which are administered either by utilities, state agencies or other third parties, and are paid for by utility ratepayers, typically through a non-bypassable System Benefits Charge which is instituted as part of restructuring legislation or rules or 2) utility programs administered by the local utility and paid for by utility ratepayers through their bundled rates.

Demand Response Programs:

Programs which provide incentives to curtail demand and reduce load during peak periods in response to system reliability or market conditions.

source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Energy Incentive Programs

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• These states have public purpose and/or utility energy efficiency programs as well as demand response programs.
• These states have demand response programs.
• These states have public purpose and/or utility energy efficiency programs.
• These states have no energy efficiency or demand response programs.