Retail electricity price: residential: District of Columbia (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 the District of Columbia, the retail electricity price for the residential sector stood at 25.21 Cents/kWh in July 2026, compared to 24.39 in June 2026. This represents an increase of 3.36 percent.
Sample. There are 439 observations in the monthly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: the retail electricity price registered a minimum of 4.94 Cents/kWh in November 1990; it recorded its maximum of 25.41 in April 2026; it had a mean of 11.13.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 25.4000 |
| 2026-06-30 | 24.3900 |
| 2026-07-31 | 25.2100 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the residential sector in District of Columbia |
| 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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