Electricity Price · Wyoming

## What this measures

The average price Wyoming's electricity customers paid in a month: utility revenue from retail sales divided by the kilowatt-hours sold, across residential, commercial, industrial and transportation customers together. Monthly, in cents per kilowatt-hour, 2001 on.

## Why it matters

Power prices set household bills and are a real cost for factories, data centers and anyone deciding where to build. Differences between states are large and lasting, and they follow fuel mix, grid costs and regulation.

## How to read it

Cents per kilowatt-hour, not adjusted for inflation. Prices rise in summer in most states, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The all-customer average depends on who buys the power: a state where heavy industry uses a large share of the electricity has a lower average, because industrial rates are lower.

## What it does not say

It is an average over every customer and rate plan, not the price any one customer pays, and it is not seasonally adjusted. Recent months are estimates from a sample of utilities and are revised when the annual census of utilities (Form EIA-861) comes in. It says nothing about reliability or about customers who buy power through other channels.

## Source

U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, retail sales of electricity (Forms EIA-861M and EIA-861), average price to ultimate customers, all sectors, read monthly through the EIA API v2 (electricity/retail-sales). A work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. §105), public domain; EIA asks to be credited as "Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration" with the publication date. Palanor rewrites the full history each read.