Electricity Price Hub

At a glance

Electricity Price Hub helps explain how US residential electricity costs vary across places and over time. It is useful for investigating a regional trend because it separates the average bill from the price per unit of electricity. Its estimates are a starting point for questions about household costs, rather than a quote for your own home.

Good fit

Readers comparing states or examining a utility’s generation, transmission, distribution and other charges. Changing from Bill to Price separates the effect of usage from the per-unit measure. The state-to-utility path makes a broad difference worth investigating without requiring a personal address.

Consider something else when

You need a live tariff quote, an individual household forecast or a retail-contract recommendation. Usage, the chosen rate plan and service territory still matter. The methodology combines regulatory reporting, utility rate books and federal data, with estimation where records are incomplete or delayed.

Start here

Choose Bill or Price, click a state, then select a period and an available utility. The trial selected Texas, January 2020 and CenterPoint Energy and displayed the utility component chart. Reset and the timeline controls restored the national Bill view. No address lookup, image export or subscription was used.

Cost and requirements

The public map and tested charts opened without payment or an account. Heatmap’s news subscriptions and newsletter signup are separate from that path. The site offers chart-copy and download controls, but its terms restrict automated extraction and republication; public viewing should not be treated as an open-data licence.

Limits to know

The June 2026 methodology describes state figures as sales-weighted, while smaller geographies use simple averages across utilities present. Recent months can be preliminary and revised as reporting arrives. Values are nominal, so a change is not inflation-adjusted. One state and utility were exercised; underlying tariff accuracy was not independently audited.

Still unclear

• Which recent points in the selected utility’s series remain preliminary, and how large have later revisions been?