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What a kilowatt-hour costs where you live.
The average US home paid 17.3¢ per kWh in 2025, and the state averages ran from 11.81¢ to 40.59¢. Every number here comes from federal filings, with its source at the bottom of the page. Texas first.
One day on one roof.
Scroll to run the clock from midnight to midnight. Modeled, illustrative: a clear July day in Austin.
- solar, 7 kW array
- home use
- sent to the grid
- bought from the grid
- Bought from grid
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- Sent to grid
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- Bought energy at 17.3¢
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The spread2025
3.44 times apart.
The highest state average was 3.44 times the lowest. Same unit, same year, same federal survey: what a kWh costs depends on where the meter is.
51 state pagesEIA-861
Every state, one tile.
Each state page has the 2025 average price, its five-year steps since 2020, typical use and bill, rooftop solar on net metering, and the largest providers, each with its own page.
City solar modelsmodeled kWh per kW a year
- Solar in El Paso1,835
- Solar in Arlington1,559
- Solar in Fort Worth1,535
- Solar in Corpus Christi1,529
- Solar in San Antonio1,505
- Solar in Dallas1,500
- Solar in Austin1,483
- Solar in Houston1,422
Five highest averagesFive lowestTexas, covered first: retail providers and city solar models
Method
Averages, not quotes.
A state or utility price here is residential revenue divided by the kWh sold to homes, from the EIA-861 annual survey and the EIA retail sales series. Typical use and bill divide a year of sales and revenue by the number of customers and by 12. That makes them class-wide averages: a useful yardstick, and not what any one household is charged.
Rate plans come from the OpenEI Utility Rate Database, a public, crowd-maintained file, so pages say "plans on file" and show when they were last updated. Solar output is modeled for a generic 1 kW roof array at each place, with its assumptions printed on the page.