Final-user natural gas price: electric power: Illinois (USD/thousand cubic feet) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Final-user gas prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Illinois, the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants was 2.85 USD per thousand cubic feet in July 2026, versus 2.94 in June. This constitutes a reduction of 3.06 percent.
Sample. There are 234 data points in the monthly series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2002 to July 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants hit a maximum of 17.78 USD per thousand cubic feet in January 2026; it hit a trough of 1.60 USD per thousand cubic feet in April 2024; it averaged 5.21 USD per thousand cubic feet.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/thousand cubic feet |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 2.75000 |
| 2026-06-30 | 2.94000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 2.85000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants 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 | USD/thousand cubic feet |
| 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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