Retail electricity price: commercial: Illinois (Cents/kWh) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US retail electricity prices (EIA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Illinois, the retail electricity price for the commercial sector was 15.19 Cents/kWh in July 2026, compared to 14.53 in the previous month. This marks a gain of 4.54 percent.
Sample. There are 439 observations in the monthly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time span extending from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: the retail electricity price had an average value of 8.76 Cents/kWh; it hit a minimum of 4.93 in November 1998; it reached its highest level of 15.36 in May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 15.3600 |
| 2026-06-30 | 14.5300 |
| 2026-07-31 | 15.1900 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the commercial sector in Illinois |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Cents/kWh |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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