Wholesale Electricity Prices By State

Wholesale electricity and natural gas market data.

Wholesale electricity prices by state.

This page provides the key data series for these markets. Archived state electricity profiles choose a year. Outcomes for the 2019 20 financial year have been. The charts and tables as well as underlying data which can be downloaded.

In 2018 ice stopped providing natural gas price index data to eia. Electricity usage charges are deregulated in most states which means energy companies like agl and origin set the per kwh price for electricity. This chart shows the price of electricity on the wholesale market in gb for delivery the next working day at a constant baseload rate. Residential customers in texas the country s largest deregulated market for electricity pay a relatively low price for electricity as well of 11 68 cents per kwh.

December 2017 was the last month we included this data on this webpage. Further information on wholesale prices can be found in our state of the energy market 2019 report. Daily wholesale and retail prices for various energy products are shown below including spot prices and select futures prices at national or regional levels. This page is meant to provide a snapshot of selected daily prices only.

Retailers don t set prices arbitrarily however. The aer monitors the performance of wholesale electricity and gas markets and publishes data from that monitoring in reports such as the annual state of the energy market and wholesale markets quarterly report. Trends observations from state data. Average price of electricity to ultimate customers by end use sector by state june 2020 and 2019 cents per kilowatthour.

Prices are updated each weekday excluding federal holidays typically between 7 30 and 8 30 a m. Rather prices largely reflect the wholesale price of electricity. The data is averaged by month rather than by day and covers around a ten year time period. Unlike other states texas has a deregulated energy market.

On average homes in louisiana pay 9 53 cents per kwh. On an annual average basis wholesale electricity prices in these markets were lower than in 2018 and monthly average prices remained lower than 75 mwh except in ercot. Select a year 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2011 zip 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1998 1996 name. Texas electricity rates chart.

From this data we can see the state with the lowest electric rates is louisiana. You can find daily wholesale natural gas and other spot prices at major trading hubs under the today in energy prices tab. This policy change means that there are dozens of competitors for customers rather than a single provider.