Electricity sales and prices
Annual retail electricity sales, revenue and average price by state and end-use sector, compiled by EIA from the EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report.
Publisher
- Organization
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Publisher’s dataset
- Retail Sales, Revenue and Price of Electricity by State and Sector (EIA-861)
- File or API used
- https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/xls/861/HS861%202010-.xlsx
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-eia-sales-prices.py- Methodology
- https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/
Coverage
- Geography
- Idaho, the US and its six neighbor states for every year; all states and DC added for the newest year only, for a price ranking
- Time coverage
- 1990-2024
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- October 7, 2025
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- License
- The compiled file on this page is CC BY 4.0. The underlying records: Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Retail electricity sales | Total retail electricity sales to ultimate customers, all sectors, for a calendar year. Idaho only. | gwh |
| Retail electricity sales by sector | Retail electricity sales to ultimate customers, broken out by end-use sector (Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Transportation), for a calendar year. Idaho only. | gwh |
| Average retail electricity price | Average retail electricity price across all sectors (revenue divided by sales), for a calendar year. | cents per_kwh |
| Residential retail electricity price | Average retail electricity price for the residential sector (revenue divided by sales), for a calendar year. | cents per_kwh |
Caveats
- Retail price is revenue divided by sales, expressed in cents per kilowatthour; for 2010-2024 EIA publishes this ratio directly, and for 1990-2009 the puller computes it the same way from EIA's own revenue and sales figures because that older file has no direct total-price column.
- The source publishes sales in megawatthours; every gwh value here is that figure divided by 1000, with no further rounding. Revenue and price are stored as published (or as computed above), with no unit conversion.
- energy.retail_sales (Idaho, all years) includes Idaho's 'Other' sector sales, which EIA collected from 1990-2002 (schools, street lighting and similar non-standard loads); those Other-sector sales are folded into the total but are not broken out as a category in energy.retail_sales_by_sector, which tracks only Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Transportation.
- energy.retail_sales_by_sector has no Transportation observation for Idaho before 2003: EIA did not collect a Transportation sector for any state until 2003, replacing the Other sector it had collected through 2002.
- Figures cover the 'Total Electric Industry' (all provider types combined: full-service, energy-only, delivery-only and competitive), not any single provider type.
- All years through 2024 are EIA-final; nothing here is marked preliminary.
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How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Retail Sales, Revenue and Price of Electricity by State and Sector (EIA-861)”, compiled from U.S. Energy Information Administration, Retail Sales, Revenue and Price of Electricity by State and Sector (EIA-861). Retrieved September 8, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/eia-sales-prices/. CC BY 4.0.
Cite U.S. Energy Information Administration directly for the figures themselves.
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