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Sales (consumption), revenue, prices & customers

  • Monthly Form EIA-861M (formerly EIA-826) detailed data (1990 - present)
  • Revenue, sales, customer counts, and retail price by state and sector
  • Available formats:XLS
  • By state and utility
  • Release date: October 7, 2025 |Data from: Electric Sales, Revenue, and Price
  • Residential sector
  • Available formats:PDFXLS
  • Commercial sector
  • Available formats:PDFXLS
  • Industrial sector
  • Available formats:PDFXLS
  • Transportation sector
  • Available formats:PDFXLS
  • Total, all sectors
  • Available formats:PDFXLS
  • Average retail price of electricity to ultimate customers:
  • Average monthly bill (Annual data)
  • Release date: October 7, 2025 |Data from: Electric Sales, Revenue, and Price
  • Residential average monthly bill by Census Division, and State
  • Available formats:PDFXLS
  • Commercial average monthly bill by Census Division, and State
  • Available formats:PDFXLS
  • Industrial average monthly bill by Census Division, and State
  • Available formats:PDFXLS

Net metering

  • Net metering
  • Monthly (back to 2011)
  • Net metering - capacity, number of meters, and energy sold back, by state, sector, and utility
  • Advanced metering - number and megawatthours served, by state by sector

Generation and thermal output

Capacity of electric power plants

  • Monthly
  • Release date: August 26, 2026|Data from: Electric Power Monthly
  • New electric generating units
  • Available formats:XLS
  • Planned electric generating unit additions
  • Available formats:XLS
  • Planned electric generating unit retirements
  • Available formats:XLS
  • Retired electric generating units
  • Available formats:XLS
  • Daily nuclear capacity status/outages (with annual capacity)
  • Status of nuclear power plants
  • Available formats:Interactive

Consumption of fuels used to generate electricity

Receipts of fossil-fuels for electricity generation

  • Monthly summary
  • Monthly Release date: August 26, 2026|Data from: Electric Power Monthly
  • Physical units
  • Available formats:XLS
  • Btu
  • Available formats:XLS

Average cost of fossil-fuels for electricity generation

Fossil-fuel stocks for electricity generation

Cost, revenue and expenses

Electricity transactions

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