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EIA residential electricity price (US)

Latest value: 18.31¢/kWh for July 2026, +4.9% year over year (against July 2025). 307 monthly observations from January 2001 to July 2026, in cents per kilowatt-hour. Source: EIA (EIA route); context series, not an input to the Nowflation CPI Gauge.

Latest observations

PeriodValue
July 202618.31¢/kWh
June 202618.34¢/kWh
May 202618.44¢/kWh
April 202618.83¢/kWh
March 202618.83¢/kWh
February 202617.65¢/kWh
January 202617.45¢/kWh
December 202517.24¢/kWh
November 202517.78¢/kWh
October 202517.97¢/kWh
September 202518.08¢/kWh
August 202517.61¢/kWh

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Cite: Nowflation, “EIA residential electricity price (US)” (eia_res_electricity), data from EIA, retrieved October 18, 2026, https://nowflation.com/series/eia_res_electricity. The series at its source: EIA.

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