{
 "title": "Electric Consumer: fact of the week",
 "about": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; underlying EIA/EPA/NOAA/Census data are U.S. government works; credit the sources and Electric Consumer.",
 "generated": "2026-10-06",
 "current": "home-price-gap",
 "items": [
  {
   "id": "home-price-gap",
   "path": "facts/home-price-gap.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/home-price-gap.html",
   "title": "A home kilowatt-hour costs 3.4 times more in Hawaii than in North Dakota",
   "finding": "In 2025 a home in Hawaii paid 40.59 cents for each kilowatt-hour. A home in North Dakota paid 11.81 cents. The U.S. average was 17.30 cents.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "3.4x",
    "label": "gap between Hawaii and North Dakota in 2025"
   },
   "formula": "ratio = highest state price / lowest state price = 40.59 / 11.81",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/home-price-gap.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "prices-after-inflation",
   "path": "facts/prices-after-inflation.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/prices-after-inflation.html",
   "title": "Since 2015, home electricity prices rose in 51 places. After inflation, 18 did",
   "finding": "Consumer prices in general rose 35.8% between 2015 and 2025. Home electricity rose 92% in California as printed and +41% after removing inflation. In Nevada the price rose 3% as printed and -24% after inflation.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "33 of 51",
    "label": "places where the home price fell after inflation, 2015 to 2025"
   },
   "formula": "real change = price2025 / (price2015 x CPI2025 / CPI2015) - 1",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/prices-after-inflation.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    },
    {
     "name": "BLS, CPI-U U.S. city average, all items (CUUR0000SA0)",
     "url": "https://www.bls.gov/cpi/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "one-year-price-jump",
   "path": "facts/one-year-price-jump.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/one-year-price-jump.html",
   "title": "Home electricity prices jumped 23.9% in District of Columbia between 2024 and 2025",
   "finding": "The U.S. home average went from 16.48 to 17.30 cents, +5.0%. District of Columbia rose 23.9%. Nevada moved -12.3%.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "24 of 51",
    "label": "places saw home prices rise more than 5% from 2024 to 2025"
   },
   "formula": "change = price2025 / price2024 - 1; extra cost = (price2025 - price2024) / 100 x monthly kWh x 12",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/one-year-price-jump.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "cheap-rates-big-bills",
   "path": "facts/cheap-rates-big-bills.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/cheap-rates-big-bills.html",
   "title": "Cheap per kWh, big on the bill: Tennessee ranks #11 for price and #15 for bill size",
   "finding": "Tennessee charges 13.18 cents per kWh, the #11 lowest. Homes there use 1,217 kWh a month, so the typical bill is $160, the #15 highest.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "3 of 17",
    "label": "cheapest-rate states still have a bill above the median ($148)"
   },
   "formula": "bill = average monthly kWh x average price / 100; count of the cheapest third of states with bill > median bill",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/cheap-rates-big-bills.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "bill-share-of-income",
   "path": "facts/bill-share-of-income.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/bill-share-of-income.html",
   "title": "The electric bill takes 3.6% of median household income in Mississippi, 1.3% in Utah",
   "finding": "A typical household in Mississippi spends about $1,992 a year on electricity, 3.6% of the median income of $54,915. In Utah it is $1,218, or 1.3% of $91,750.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "2.7x",
    "label": "burden in Mississippi against Utah"
   },
   "formula": "share = (monthly bill x 12) / median household income x 100",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/bill-share-of-income.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    },
    {
     "name": "U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year, 2023",
     "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "outage-minutes",
   "path": "facts/outage-minutes.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/outage-minutes.html",
   "title": "Outage time per customer: 4 h 40 min in Mississippi, 57 min in Illinois",
   "finding": "Weighted by home accounts, the utilities in Mississippi reported 280 minutes without power per customer in 2024. In Illinois it was 57 minutes. Major event days are left out.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "4.9x",
    "label": "more outage time in Mississippi than in Illinois, 2024"
   },
   "formula": "state SAIDI = sum(accounts x utility SAIDI) / sum(accounts); ratio = highest / lowest",
   "rows": 44,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/outage-minutes.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 final",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "homes-pay-more-than-industry",
   "path": "facts/homes-pay-more-than-industry.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/homes-pay-more-than-industry.html",
   "title": "Homes pay 2.0 times as much per kWh as industry, and 2.8 times in New York",
   "finding": "Across the U.S. in 2025, homes paid 17.30 cents per kWh and industry paid 8.62. In New York the ratio was 2.8 to one. In Hawaii it was 1.3.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "2.0x",
    "label": "home price against industrial price, U.S. average, 2025"
   },
   "formula": "ratio = home price / industrial price",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/homes-pay-more-than-industry.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "clean-power-and-price",
   "path": "facts/clean-power-and-price.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/clean-power-and-price.html",
   "title": "Clean power and home prices: the link across states is weak",
   "finding": "Vermont makes 100% of its power from renewables and nuclear. Delaware makes 4%. Plotted against home price, the 51 points give a correlation of -0.07.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "r = -0.07",
    "label": "correlation of clean share and home price across 51 places"
   },
   "formula": "r = Pearson correlation(clean share, home price) over states",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/clean-power-and-price.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA-923 generation (2025 final) and EIA-860 generator file (2025)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/"
    },
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "rooftop-solar-by-state",
   "path": "facts/rooftop-solar-by-state.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/rooftop-solar-by-state.html",
   "title": "Rooftop solar is concentrated: 220 systems per 1,000 homes in Hawaii, 18 places under 10",
   "finding": "Utilities reported net-metered systems to EIA for 2024. Divided by their home accounts, Hawaii has 220.5 per 1,000. The middle state has 15.4. Tennessee has 0.0.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "220",
    "label": "net-metered systems per 1,000 home accounts in Hawaii, 2024"
   },
   "formula": "per 1,000 = net-metered systems / home accounts x 1000",
   "rows": 50,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/rooftop-solar-by-state.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 final",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  },
  {
   "id": "buying-from-a-retail-supplier",
   "path": "facts/buying-from-a-retail-supplier.html",
   "url": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/buying-from-a-retail-supplier.html",
   "title": "Who sells you power? 58% of homes in Ohio buy from a retail supplier",
   "finding": "In 2024, 58.0% of home accounts in Ohio were served by a retail supplier. In 36 places none were.",
   "headline": {
    "value": "15 of 51",
    "label": "places where at least some homes buy from a retail supplier, 2024"
   },
   "formula": "share = home accounts with a retail supplier / all home accounts x 100",
   "rows": 51,
   "csv": "https://electricconsumer.org/facts/data/buying-from-a-retail-supplier.csv",
   "sources": [
    {
     "name": "EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 final",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/"
    },
    {
     "name": "EIA electricity retail sales, annual and monthly (API v2)",
     "url": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/"
    }
   ],
   "published": "2026-10-06"
  }
 ]
}