Retail electricity price: residential: North Carolina (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 North Carolina, the retail electricity price for the residential sector was 15.16 Cents/kWh in July 2026, versus 14.74 in the previous month. This represents an increase of 2.85 percent.
Sample. There are 439 records overall in the monthly time series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series goes from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the retail electricity price had an average value of 9.92 Cents/kWh; it recorded its highest level of 16.25 in April 2026; it recorded a bottom of 7.32 in January 1990.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 15.0900 |
| 2026-06-30 | 14.7400 |
| 2026-07-31 | 15.1600 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the residential sector in North Carolina |
| 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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