Your Electric Bill Is Going Up, But Where You Live Decides How Much
Electricity prices are climbing across the country, with new 2025 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showing Americans are paying 22% more for electricity than they were just five years ago. But the national average masks enormous state-by-state differences driven by infrastructure capacity, generation mix, and state-level policy decisions, with high-cost states like California, Rhode Island, and New York facing the steepest hikes while energy-producing states such as Wyoming and North Dakota have held rates remarkably stable.