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The table below presents historical information about average residential electricity prices, broken down by year and state. This information comes from theU.S. Energy Information Administration. Click on a column heading in the table below to sort the data.^[1]

Average residential electricity prices, 2002-2013 (cents per kilowatt)
State	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Alabama	7.39	7.62	8	8.75	9.32	10.4	10.66	10.67	11.09	11.4	11.35
Alaska	11.98	12.44	13.3	14.83	15.18	16.55	17.14	16.26	17.62	17.88	18.2
Arizona	8.35	8.46	8.86	9.4	9.66	10.27	10.73	10.97	11.08	11.29	11.8
Arkansas	7.24	7.36	8	8.85	8.73	9.27	9.14	8.86	9.02	9.3	9.57
California	12.23	12.2	12.51	14.33	14.42	13.81	14.74	14.75	14.78	15.34	16.39
Colorado	8.14	8.42	9.06	9.02	9.25	10.13	10	11.04	11.27	11.46	11.91
Connecticut	11.31	11.63	13.64	16.86	19.11	19.55	20.33	19.25	18.11	17.34	17.58
Delaware	8.59	8.78	9.01	11.85	13.16	13.93	14.07	13.8	13.7	13.58	13.04
District of Columbia	7.84	8	9.1	9.88	11.18	12.79	13.76	14.01	13.4	12.28	12.57
Florida	8.55	8.99	9.62	11.33	11.22	11.65	12.39	11.44	11.51	11.42	11.35
Georgia	7.7	7.86	8.64	8.91	9.1	9.93	10.13	10.07	11.05	11.17	11.34
Hawaii	16.73	18.06	20.7	23.35	24.12	32.5	24.2	28.1	34.68	37.34	37.02
Idaho	8.57	8.96	9.27	9.63	9.45	9.49	9.99	10.42	10.46	10.82	11.24
Illinois	6.24	6.1	6.29	6.21	6.36	6.99	7.8	7.99	7.87	8.67	9.37
Indiana	8.38	8.37	8.34	8.42	10.12	11.07	11.27	11.52	11.78	11.37	10.34
Iowa	7.04	7.3	7.5	8.22	8.26	8.87	9.5	9.56	10.06	10.53	10.89
Kansas	7.71	7.74	7.9	8.25	8.19	8.88	9.53	10.03	10.65	11.24	11.63
Kentucky	5.81	6.11	6.57	7.02	7.34	7.94	8.37	8.57	9.2	9.43	9.74
Louisiana	7.84	8.05	8.87	9.14	9.37	10.28	8.1	8.98	8.96	8.37	9.45
Maine	12.37	12.16	13.23	13.8	16.52	16.2	15.65	15.71	15.38	14.66	14.36
Maryland	7.73	7.8	8.46	9.71	11.89	13.84	14.98	14.32	13.31	12.84	13.22
Massachusetts	11.6	11.75	13.44	16.6	16.23	17.68	16.87	14.59	14.67	14.91	15.28
Michigan	8.35	8.33	8.4	9.77	10.21	10.75	11.6	12.46	13.27	14.13	14.63
Minnesota	7.65	7.92	8.28	8.7	9.18	9.74	10.04	10.59	10.96	11.35	12
Mississippi	7.6	8.21	8.71	9.66	9.36	10.39	10.22	9.87	10.17	10.26	10.84
Montana	6.96	6.97	7.08	7.44	7.69	8	8.54	9.08	9.75	10.17	10.69
Missouri	7.56	7.86	8.1	8.28	8.77	9.13	8.93	9.16	9.75	10.08	10.43
Nebraska	6.87	6.96	7.14	7.41	7.59	7.87	8.52	8.94	9.32	10.04	10.44
Nevada	9.02	9.69	10.20	11.08	11.82	11.93	12.86	12.36	11.61	11.83	11.89
New Hampshire	11.98	12.49	13.51	14.68	14.88	15.68	16.26	16.32	16.52	16.07	16.38
New Jersey	10.67	11.23	11.74	12.84	14.14	15.66	16.31	16.57	16.23	15.78	15.76
New Mexico	8.69	8.67	9.13	9.06	9.12	10.01	10.02	10.52	11	11.37	11.77
New York	14.31	14.54	15.72	16.89	17.1	18.3	17.5	18.74	18.26	17.62	18.89
North Carolina	8.32	8.45	8.65	9.12	9.4	9.52	9.99	10.12	10.26	10.91	10.95
North Dakota	6.49	6.79	6.99	7.14	7.3	7.51	7.58	8.13	8.58	9.06	9.18
Ohio	8.26	8.45	8.51	9.34	9.57	10.06	10.67	11.32	11.42	11.76	11.99
Oklahoma	7.47	7.72	7.95	8.55	8.58	9.09	8.49	9.14	9.47	9.51	9.79
Oregon	7.06	7.18	7.25	7.48	8.19	8.49	8.68	8.87	9.54	9.8	9.93
Pennsylvania	9.59	9.58	9.86	10.35	10.95	11.35	11.65	12.7	13.26	12.75	12.82
Rhode Island	11.61	12.19	13.04	15.12	14.05	17.45	15.6	15.92	14.33	14.4	14.96
South Carolina	8.01	8.12	8.67	9.03	9.19	9.89	10.44	10.5	11.05	11.77	11.85
South Dakota	7.47	7.65	7.77	7.83	8.07	8.27	8.49	8.97	9.35	10.07	10.33
Tennessee	6.55	6.9	6.98	7.75	7.84	8.91	9.32	9.23	9.98	10.1	10.06
Texas	9.16	9.73	10.93	12.86	12.34	13.04	12.38	11.6	11.08	10.98	11.38
Utah	6.9	7.21	7.52	7.59	8.15	8.26	8.48	8.71	8.96	9.93	10.46
Vermont	12.82	12.94	12.96	13.39	14.15	14.48	14.9	15.57	16.26	17.01	17.16
Virginia	7.76	7.99	8.16	8.49	8.74	9.62	10.61	10.45	10.64	11.08	10.98
Washington	6.31	6.37	6.54	6.82	7.26	7.54	7.68	8.04	8.28	8.53	8.68
West Virginia	6.24	6.23	6.21	6.35	6.73	7.06	7.9	8.79	9.39	9.85	9.57
Wisconsin	8.67	9.07	9.66	10.51	10.87	11.51	11.94	12.65	13.02	13.19	13.78
Wyoming	7.04	7.21	7.48	7.75	7.75	8.21	8.58	8.77	9.11	9.85	10.18
United States	8.72	8.95	9.45	10.4	10.65	11.26	11.51	11.54	11.72	11.88	12.16

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Footnotes

↑U.S. Energy Information Administration, "U.S. Overview," accessed February 3, 2014

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