Alabama electricity prices - 16.40¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Alabama costs 16.40¢/kWh as of - +3.0% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Alabama home used 1,517 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $248.69 (+1.3% vs a year earlier).
- Alabama has the 24th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 10% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 16.40¢ | +3.0% |
| Commercial | 14.83¢ | +1.6% |
| Industrial | 8.42¢ | +3.7% |
Water
Electricity delivered in Alabama carries 6.86 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.35 L/kWh excluding hydropower reservoir evaporation), against a national average of 4.28. That is above the national figure, and it is a property of the grid here rather than of any one building: a data center drawing 100 GWh a year in Alabama accounts for about 181.3 million gallons of power-plant water before it cools anything. All states ranked →
A data center's water use is roughly twelve times larger once the water evaporated at its power plants is counted. The Colorado River arithmetic → · how the water numbers work →
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