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 the previous month. This marks a decrease of 3.37 percent.
Sample. The monthly time series displayed in the graph has a total of 439 data points. The series covers the time span extending from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics calculated on the full sample: the retail electricity price had a mean value of 11.41 Cents/kWh; it reached a maximum of 23.85 in May 2026; it hit a trough of 7.27 in January 2005.
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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