{
  "query": {
    "country": "US",
    "energy": "electricity",
    "state": "TX"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "unit": "cents per kWh",
    "value": 15.88,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-07-01",
    "to": "2026-07-31"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2026-07",
    "note": "EIA labels these values preliminary estimates based on a cutoff model sample."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-14T21:31:04.377Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "us-eia-energy",
    "name": "Average residential electricity price (Electric Power Monthly table 5.6.A) and residential natural gas price (Natural Gas Monthly table 20), by state",
    "publisher": "U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)",
    "licence": "Public domain. EIA states: \"U.S. government publications are in the public domain and are not subject to copyright protection. You may use and/or distribute any of our data, files, databases, reports, graphs, charts, and other information products that are on our website or that you receive through our email distribution service. However, if you use or reproduce any of our information products, you should use an acknowledgment, which includes the publication date, such as: \"Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Oct 2008).\"\" The EIA logo is a registered trademark and is not used here.",
    "licence_url": "https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php",
    "attribution": "Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Jul 2026). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, table 5.6.A (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a) and Natural Gas Monthly, average price of natural gas sold to residential consumers, by state (https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_a_EPG0_PRS_DMcf_m.htm). Public domain; EIA asks for an acknowledgment with the publication date. Prices are passed on as published; the dollar-per-kWh figure and the change on a year earlier are calculated by ProofPrice. ProofPrice is not endorsed by EIA.",
    "url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/"
  },
  "method": "The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes, every month, the average price of electricity sold to residential customers in each state and the U.S., in cents per kilowatthour (Electric Power Monthly, table 5.6.A, from the monthly Form EIA-861M survey), with the same month a year earlier. ProofPrice copies the table once a day and returns the published figure unchanged. No range is calculated: EIA gives one average and does not say how many customers or bills are behind it.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In Texas the average residential electricity price was 15.88 cents per kilowatthour (kWh) in July 2026 (about $0.1588 per kWh). That is 3.4% higher than a year earlier (15.36 cents in July 2025). The U.S. average was 18.31 cents in July 2026. Official average published by U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) for 2026-07.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "country_name": "United States",
    "energy": "electricity",
    "state": {
      "code": "TX",
      "name": "Texas"
    },
    "customers": "residential",
    "reference_month": "2026-07",
    "reference_month_label": "July 2026",
    "unit_note": "US cents per kilowatthour (100 cents = 1 US dollar).",
    "price_usd_per_kwh": 0.1588,
    "change_on_year_earlier": {
      "reference_month": "2025-07",
      "value": 15.36,
      "change_amount": 0.52,
      "change_percent": 3.4
    },
    "us_average": {
      "value": 18.31,
      "reference_month": "2026-07",
      "unit": "cents per kWh"
    },
    "dataset": {
      "name": "Electric Power Monthly, table 5.6.A",
      "file": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/xls/table_5_06_a.xlsx",
      "page": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a",
      "sector": "Residential",
      "form": "EIA-861M"
    }
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_d16d19925cd4c99bb611",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T21:31:04.378Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published average",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  }
}