The national price blur

One grid.
Fifty-one prices.

Residential averages vary by state before the wholesale market moves at all.

Residential electricity prices by stateAll 50 states and the District of Columbia, shaded from lower to higher residential cents per kilowatt-hour. Choose a state to resolve it as the current location.
Idaho12.3¢Hawaii52.0¢
May 2026EIA residential snapshot

Put your household on the curve

Usage model

MODELED
700 kWh
150 kWh2,500 kWh
$/ month

Usage is distributed across a simple normalized 24-hour residential load shape, scaled to your monthly kWh. This is a model—not smart-meter data.

If this day repeated for a month

What would the same usage cost?

Household price29.9¢per kWh
Latest grid price at build5.3¢per kWh
Current gap24.6¢per kWh
Ordinary estimated bill$209.51
Spot energy costWholesale energy only$38.04
Spot-exposed estimated billSpot energy + $55 fixed assumption$93.04
Wholesale energy difference$171.47Retail bill minus wholesale energy only. Direct exposure also carries scarcity risk.

Winter Storm Uri / Griddy exposure

Spot exposure looked inexpensive until it didn't.

Put the same household model through every real ERCOT interval in February 2021.

EIA Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A (May 2026 snapshot) · NYISO real-time zonal LBMP cached snapshot · as of Jul 31, 6:50 AM EDT