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Kansas electricity prices - 15.71¢/kWh (June 2026)

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

8.2310.2312.2214.2116.212012201420162018202020222024202615.71
Kansas: average residential electricity price, ¢/kWh, monthly since 2010. Source: EIA Form 861M.
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$56$93$130$167$20420122014201620182020202220242026$164
Kansas: average residential monthly bill (revenue ÷ customers), monthly. Source: EIA Form 861M.
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Price by sector

Sector¢/kWh (June 2026)1-yr change
Residential15.71¢+4.5%
Commercial12.27¢+1.4%
Industrial8.21¢+0.2%

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Water

Electricity delivered in Kansas carries 3.70 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (0.94 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 Kansas accounts for about 97.8 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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