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 June 2026. This marks a rise of 4.54 percent.
Sample. In this monthly series, there are 439 observations in total. The period covered by the series goes from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: the retail electricity price achieved a maximum of 15.36 Cents/kWh in May 2026; it hit a trough of 4.93 in November 1998; it had a mean value of 8.76.
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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