Iowa electricity prices - 15.99¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Iowa costs 15.99¢/kWh as of - +4.4% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Iowa home used 1,209 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $193.22 (+11.5% vs a year earlier).
- Iowa has the 28th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 13% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
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Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 15.99¢ | +4.4% |
| Commercial | 13.27¢ | +0.7% |
| Industrial | 9.99¢ | +10.1% |
Water
Electricity delivered in Iowa carries 3.84 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.56 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 Iowa accounts for about 101.4 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 →