Retail electricity price: residential: 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 residential sector was 19.22 Cents/kWh in July 2026, compared to 19.89 in June 2026. This constitutes a decrease of 3.37 percent.
Sample. There are 439 observations overall in the monthly time series displayed in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series is from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: the retail electricity price had a mean value of 11.41 Cents/kWh; it hit a trough of 7.27 in January 2005; it recorded its highest level of 23.85 in May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 23.8500 |
| 2026-06-30 | 19.8900 |
| 2026-07-31 | 19.2200 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the residential 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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