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What do households in the United States pay for electricity (state tx)?

Household energy prices in the United States, from U.S. Energy Information Administration. An official figure as of 31 July 2026.

An official average or median published by a statistics office or regulator, not individual sales.

US$15.88 cents per kWh, average

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.

Reference period
2026-07 (the period the publisher states for this figure)
Kind of figure
An official average published by U.S. Energy Information Administration. It is passed on as published: no range of ours, and no count of records unless the publisher gives one.

EIA labels these values preliminary estimates based on a cutoff model sample.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Licence: Public domain. EIA states. Live answer: /api/v1/energy?country=US&energy=electricity&state=TX

Where this comes from

Source
Average residential electricity price (Electric Power Monthly table 5.6.A) and residential natural gas price (Natural Gas Monthly table 20), by state, published by 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.
Attribution
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.
Figures as of
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How fresh the source is
Monthly: EIA adds a month to each table about two months after it ends (electricity in the last week of the month, natural gas at the month's end); our copy is refreshed daily and each answer states its month
Limits
State averages over all residential customers (revenue per unit sold), not a tariff, a supplier's offer or a quote for a particular home, and not business prices. EIA labels the electricity figures preliminary estimates based on a cutoff model sample; it does not say how many customers or bills stand behind a figure. Gas: EIA publishes no figure for some state-months (blank cells in its table, for example Florida and Louisiana for May to July 2026); then the answer uses the state's newest published month within a year and says so. Electricity is in cents per kilowatthour, gas in US dollars per thousand cubic feet (Mcf), so the two cannot be compared directly. Each table lags the market by about two months.
Rule
A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.

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