Dataset · Utilities
EIA Retail Sales
Available eia
The average industrial retail electricity price per state (cents per kWh), from EIA's retail sales data (Forms EIA-861 and EIA-861M).
- Publisher
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Category
- Utilities
- Period
- Latest complete annual year
- Refresh cadence
- Monthly
- Measures
- 1
- Licence
- Public domain (U.S. federal government work)
Source
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Publisher | U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Product | Electric power retail sales and prices by state |
| Source | https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data.php (opens in a new tab) |
| Category | Utilities |
| Period | Latest complete annual year |
| Refresh cadence | Monthly |
| Geographies | State. Each state's price is given to its counties, and a metro is the population-weighted mean of its counties, so a metro spanning states blends their prices. |
| Availability | Available |
| Cadastre key | eia |
Licence and attribution
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Licence | Public domain (U.S. federal government work) |
| Terms | https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php (opens in a new tab) |
| Register status | Production approved; licence open |
| Allowed uses | evaluation, internal, public_display, derived_analytics, redistribution, bulk_export, public_geometry, api |
This source requires no credit line beyond naming the publisher. Cite it as U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric power retail sales and prices by state.
Measures
The key is the measure's identifier in Cadastre. A measure stored for the metro itself is read as stored; Rule from counties is how a metro is assembled from its counties where it is not (see Methodology).
| Key | Label | Unit | Rule from counties |
|---|---|---|---|
electricity_industrial_price | Industrial electricity price | cents per kWh | population-weighted county mean |
Known gaps and caveats
- A state-level benchmark only: it is not a utility tariff or the rate at any site.