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Electricity Cost Calculator by State

A monthly electric bill from your kWh and the EIA average for your state. You can type the rate from your bill instead.

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Monthly electric bill

Start with the EIA state average. If you have the rate from your bill, type that in instead.
EIA MONTHLY DATA

Texas: 15.94¢/kWhResidential state average · June 2026

kWhkWh from a recent bill
¢ / kWhLeave blank to use the state average

Estimated monthly electric bill

$143.46900 kWh at 15.94¢/kWh
Yearly estimate$1,721.52Same usage × 12
Daily average$4.72Yearly estimate ÷ 365
Rate sourceEIA average2026-06
How we got this
  1. Electricity usedYour entered monthly usage900 kWh
  2. Price appliedPublished state residential average or your override15.94¢ per kWh
  3. Estimated electric billkWh × cents per kWh ÷ 100$143.46
What we assumed
  • This multiplies your kWh by a price. It is not a copy of your utility bill.
  • Fixed charges, demand charges, tiers, taxes, credits, and time of use rates are left out.
  • A state average can differ a lot from your rate. Type the number from your bill if you have it.
Technical details

Method energy-cost-v1.1.0Data eia-electricity-residential-2026-06-v1

Guide

State-average electric bills versus your utility

CostAnswer editorialIndependent calculator publisher

Monthly cost is kWh × the EIA residential average for the state you pick, unless you type the rate from your bill. The EIA figure is a statewide average retail price, not your utility’s tariff.

Why the bill diverges

Fixed customer charges, time-of-use periods, summer rattlesnake rates in Texas ERCOT cities, and California tiered rates are not in a single cents-per-kWh average. If you have a bill, type that effective rate and the snapshot drops out of the result.

Questions about this calculator

Which state’s electricity is used?

The state you select. The cents-per-kWh is EIA’s residential average for that state in the stored period, unless you override it.

Does this include delivery charges?

EIA’s retail average blends generation and delivery as reported. It still will not match a bill with a large fixed charge and low usage.

Terms used here

kWh
Kilowatt-hour, the usual unit on a residential bill.
EIA
U.S. Energy Information Administration, source of the state average price snapshot.

Practical tips

  • Divide a recent bill’s total by kWh for an effective rate, then type that.
  • Appliance-level costs are on the appliance electricity calculator.

Limits and caveats

  • State average, not a quote from your utility. Not energy advice.

Results are for information. They are not legal, tax, medical, or financial advice. How the math is maintained · Report a wrong figure.

Engine notes

Rounding, versioning, and omissions that sit beside the guide rather than repeating it.

  • Start with monthly kWh. Your usage is multiplied by a cents per kWh rate and turned into dollars.
  • The state average is a starting point. The default is the EIA residential state average for June 2026. It is a broad average, not your personal rate.
  • Your bill rate, if you type it. A rate you enter replaces the average. Fixed charges, tiers, and time of use rates are still left out.

Calculation receipt

What each number here is

The arithmetic is decided by your inputs. Official data only supplies a starting value, and anything you type replaces it.

OBSERVEDEIA retail electricity
Only a starting value. A figure from your own bill or quote replaces it and is used instead.
USER ENTEREDA figure you enter
A figure you typed. It replaces our default and is used exactly as given.

Sources

Where this data comes from

U.S. Energy Information AdministrationSource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861M monthly estimates. Snapshot eia-electricity-residential-2026-06-v1.EIA · June 2026 ↗EIA retail price explanationWhy published average retail prices are not the rate on your bill.Method note ↗

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