Colorado electricity prices - 17.13¢/kWh (June 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Colorado costs 17.13¢/kWh as of - +6.8% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Colorado home used 751 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $128.73 (+12.8% vs a year earlier).
- Colorado has the 23rd-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 7% below the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (June 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 17.13¢ | +6.8% |
| Commercial | 14.19¢ | +5.2% |
| Industrial | 10.23¢ | +6.1% |
Data-center rate policy
- Xcel Energy (Public Service Co. of Colorado): pending (≥50 MW) - details
Water
Electricity delivered in Colorado carries 3.88 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (0.99 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 Colorado accounts for about 102.6 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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