Georgia electricity prices - 16.36¢/kWh (June 2026)

Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story

• Residential electricity in Georgia costs 16.36¢/kWh as of June 2026 - +2.5% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
• The average Georgia home used 1,201 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $196.53 (−0.5% vs a year earlier).
• Georgia has the 25th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 11% below the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.

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Data centers & Georgia's electric bills

On December 19, 2025, the Georgia Public Service Commission voted 5-0 to approve a stipulated agreement allowing Georgia Power to build 9,885 MW of new generation, mostly to serve data centers, with Georgia Power financially backstopping the projects in 2029-2031 beyond a base-rate freeze that runs through the end of 2028. PSC staff had earlier warned residential bills could rise about $20 per month if data-center revenue failed to materialize; the settlement's revenue guarantee was designed to address that risk. A state audit estimated Georgia's data-center sales-tax exemption cost $474.2 million in forgone state revenue in fiscal 2025.

• 2025-12-19 - On December 19, 2025, the Georgia PSC voted unanimously (5-0) to approve a stipulated agreement allowing Georgia Power to produce 9,885 megawatts of new energy, most of it to serve new large customers such as data centers, with Georgia Power agreeing to financially backstop the new projects in 2029, 2030 and 2031, beyond the existing base-rate freeze in place through the end of 2028. Source: Georgia Public Service Commission (news release)
• 2025-12-19 - The Georgia PSC states that Georgia Power's financial backstop creates $8.50 per month of downward pressure on the bill of an average household using 1,000 kWh of electricity. Source: Georgia Public Service Commission (news release)
• 2025-12-11 - In filed testimony, Georgia PSC staff warned that ratepayers could face about a $20 monthly bill increase if the Commission approved all 9,885 megawatts and data-center revenue did not materialize, a risk the December 2025 settlement addressed by having Georgia Power guarantee that revenue for 2029 through 2031. Source: Atlanta News First
• 2025-12 - A December 2025 state tax-incentive evaluation summarized by the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts estimated forgone state tax revenue of $474.2 million in fiscal 2025 from the data-center sales and use tax exemption, and found that 70% of Georgia data centers would have located in the state without the exemption. Source: Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts

Each item above is dated and linked to its primary source; entries are reviewed quarterly. See the large-load tariff tracker and the who-paid-what ledger for the cross-state picture.

Water

Electricity delivered in Georgia carries 8.29 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.52 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 Georgia accounts for about 219 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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