About Power Bill Facts

Power Bill Facts is an independent public-data reference site. It publishes what US electric utilities report to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): the average price their residential customers paid per kilowatthour, the average monthly bill, customer counts, sales by sector, outage minutes and the counties in their service territory. It covers 1,395 utilities and retail suppliers with at least 1,000 residential customers, all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 3,141 counties. Annual figures are for 2024; state prices by month run to July 2026.

What it is for

EIA's files are public, but they arrive as spreadsheets with one row per utility, state and service type. Households comparing bills, people moving home, solar shoppers, small businesses, local reporters and regulators' staff all ask the same questions of them: how does this utility compare with the state, is the price rising, how often does the power go out. Each page here sets a utility's figures beside its state, the country and utilities of the same ownership type, with the year-by-year record since 2013.

What it leaves out

• Tariffs. An average price is revenue divided by sales. It is not the rate on any schedule, and it cannot predict a particular household's bill. Rate schedules are published by each utility and its regulator.
• Advice. The site does not recommend a utility, a retail supplier, a rate plan or a solar installer, and it makes no claim about what anyone would pay after a change.
• Blame. Tables are ordered by a number, and nothing more is read into the order. Prices reflect fuel, climate, geography and policy; outage figures reflect weather, terrain and differing calculation methods.
• People. Every page is about an organisation, a state, a county or an ownership type. No customer data and no named individuals appear.

Funding

The site is free to use and funded by advertising, which is labelled as such. Advertisers and sponsors have no say in which utilities appear or how their figures are presented.

Updates and corrections

The site is rebuilt every day. Monthly figures change when EIA publishes a new month, usually near the end of the following month but one; annual figures change when EIA releases a new Form EIA-861 file each autumn. Where a figure here differs from EIA's file, EIA's file is authoritative: see corrections and the methodology. Power Bill Facts is not affiliated with or endorsed by EIA, the Department of Energy or any utility.

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