Indiana electricity prices - 17.51¢/kWh (June 2026)

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

• Residential electricity in Indiana costs 17.51¢/kWh as of June 2026 - +6.3% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
• The average Indiana home used 937 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $164.05 (+0.2% vs a year earlier).
• Indiana has the 21st-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 5% below the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.

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Data centers & Indiana's electric bills

Indiana residential electric bills rose more than 17% on average in 2025, the steepest increase since at least 2005, prompting an IURC investigative inquiry and statewide listening tour in spring 2026. Utilities say new transmission costs to serve data centers are allocated 100% to those customers, but a consumer group is contesting a Duke Energy filing it says shifts $216 million in Meta-related upgrades onto all Duke Indiana customers, and Indianapolis's council voted in August 2026 to pause new data centers through 2027.

• 2026-05 - Indiana residential electric bills jumped more than 17% on average in 2025 - the steepest increase since at least 2005 - and the IURC held an investigative inquiry into the state's largest utilities in spring 2026 after completing a 10-stop public listening tour on energy affordability in April 2026. Source: Indiana Public Media (WFIU/WTIU)
• 2026-05 - AES Indiana regulatory affairs official Chad Rogers told regulators that 'to the extent that new transmission costs are to deliver power to the data center, 100 percent of that gets allocated to the data center,' while an IURC commissioner questioned whether that commitment extends to all transmission upgrades. Source: Indiana Public Media (WFIU/WTIU)
• 2026-08 - The Citizens Action Coalition says Duke Energy is shifting $216 million in network upgrades for Meta's Jeffersonville data center onto all Duke Indiana customers in Cause No. 45647 TDSIC-5, and that Indiana Michigan Power is shifting more than $400 million in grid-connection costs for Google (Fort Wayne) and Amazon (New Carlisle) data centers onto its customers in Cause No. 46301; both allocations are contested by the group. Source: Citizens Action Coalition
• 2026-08-10 - The Indianapolis City-County Council voted 23-1 on August 10, 2026 for a moratorium on new data centers through the end of 2027 - exempting three already-approved projects - with the nine-member Metropolitan Development Commission expected to take a final vote on August 19. Source: Mirror Indy

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.

Indiana is served by the PJM grid region (in part), where the price of guaranteed generating capacity is set in an annual auction - see PJM capacity auction prices for how that reaches retail bills.

Water

Electricity delivered in Indiana carries 3.25 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.48 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 Indiana accounts for about 85.8 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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