Electricity report for July 2026: prices, plans and credits

Here are home electricity prices for July 2026 next to the same month a year earlier (July 2025). EIA published them on September 24, 2026. The rank counts all 51 states and D.C. with data, where 1 is the biggest rise.

Ohio moved the most of the five. New Jersey moved the least and fell. A state average mixes every utility and plan in the state, so your own price can be higher or lower.

A default price is what your utility charges for supply if you pick no company. Pennsylvania calls it the price to compare. We counted every offer on the state shopping sites and asked how many are priced under the default price for that utility.

Texas has no utility default price, so we look at something else. Some plans look cheap at 1,000 kWh because of a bill credit or a usage fee. The Power to Choose list prices every plan at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh. We flag a plan when its cost per kWh climbs at a rate that differs by more than 1¢ between those points. That is the same test our Texas pages use.

In 6 of 6 areas, the lowest advertised price at 1,000 kWh is a plan with the flag. A flagged plan can cost far more in a month when you use less or more power than its credit needs. The listings count a plan once for each area it is sold in.

• Savings. We count offers under a default price. We do not say what any home would save.
• New Jersey and Illinois offers. We hold the default prices for both. Our data does not count their offers yet, so they are not in the plan counts.
• Delivery charges. Pennsylvania delivery charges are on file only as the charge in force today. A change needs two dated numbers per utility, and we do not have them in one place.
• Fees and credits. The Pennsylvania and Ohio counts leave out exit fees, bill credits, plan length and renewable share, except the last column of each table.
• Prepaid, time-of-use and variable plans in Texas. The Texas count covers 12-month fixed plans only.
• Think Energy rows. We leave them out of Pennsylvania everywhere, as in our other Pennsylvania pages.

Every number on this page comes from data files that our programs fill, and the page is rebuilt each month from them. No number is typed by hand. Here is the order of work.

1. 1
   Prices.

   We take the newest month in which the five states and the U.S. all have a price, and the same month a year earlier. The change is the new price minus the old, divided by the old.

2. 2
   Offers.

   For each Pennsylvania and Ohio utility we use the counts from the state shopping site: all offers, offers under the default price, and offers still under it after the monthly fee.

3. 3
   Texas flag.

   We use the Power to Choose list for 12-month fixed plans in the six delivery areas. A plan with the flag is one whose cost per kWh bends between 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh.

4. 4
   Dates.

   Each source has its own dates, shown below. If a source cannot be read, we keep the last report and say how old it is.

The page's own "Updated" date shows when the report last changed. It moves only when the numbers or words change.

This is the first report. Each new month is added here, so you can see how the numbers move.