Surprising facts about U.S. electricity
Ten findings that come straight out of public electricity data. Each page shows the map, the table, the arithmetic and the limits, so you can check it or redo it.
How these are chosen
A fact appears only if the build can compute it from the data files in this site. If the data for one goes missing, the page is dropped instead of filled with a guess. New pages are added about once a week.
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Home price gap
3.4x gap between Hawaii and North Dakota in 2025
Prices after inflation
33 of 51 places where the home price fell after inflation, 2015 to 2025
One year price jump
24 of 51 places saw home prices rise more than 5% from 2024 to 2025
Cheap rates big bills
3 of 17 cheapest-rate states still have a bill above the median ($148)
Bill share of income
2.7x burden in Mississippi against Utah
Outage minutes
4.9x more outage time in Mississippi than in Illinois, 2024
Homes pay more than industry
2.0x home price against industrial price, U.S. average, 2025
Clean power and price
r = -0.07 correlation of clean share and home price across 51 places
Rooftop solar by state
220 net-metered systems per 1,000 home accounts in Hawaii, 2024
Buying from a retail supplier
15 of 51 places where at least some homes buy from a retail supplier, 2024
Questions
Where do the numbers come from?
Public data from EIA, the Census Bureau, EPA and BLS. Each page lists its sources with data years and retrieval dates.
Can I reuse a chart?
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How often are facts added?
About one a week. The feed lists them as they go live.
What if a number is wrong?
The corrections page logs every change.
Are the facts opinions?
No. Each is a ratio, a count or a correlation computed from a data table, and the page says what it cannot show.