Arkansas electricity prices - 14.33¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Arkansas costs 14.33¢/kWh as of - +8.1% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Arkansas home used 1,406 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $201.53 (+7.8% vs a year earlier).
- Arkansas has the 43rd-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 22% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 14.33¢ | +8.1% |
| Commercial | 11.76¢ | +10.8% |
| Industrial | 7.84¢ | +8.3% |
Water
Electricity delivered in Arkansas carries 3.66 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.40 L/kWh excluding hydropower reservoir evaporation), against a national average of 4.28. That is below 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 Arkansas accounts for about 96.6 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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