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 was 25.21 Cents/kWh in July 2026, compared to 24.39 in June 2026. This constitutes an increase of 3.36 percent.
Sample. There are 439 observations overall in the monthly series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: the retail electricity price averaged 11.13 Cents/kWh; it hit a minimum of 4.94 in November 1990; it hit a maximum of 25.41 in April 2026.
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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