Minnesota electricity prices - 17.45¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Minnesota costs 17.45¢/kWh as of - +3.1% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Minnesota home used 971 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $169.45 (+8.8% vs a year earlier).
- Minnesota has the 21st-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 5% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 17.45¢ | +3.1% |
| Commercial | 13.49¢ | +2.4% |
| Industrial | 10.34¢ | +5.8% |
Data-center rate policy
- Xcel Energy (very large customer class): approved (≥100 MW new load; also 20-100 MW customers deemed 'system intensive') - details
Water
Electricity delivered in Minnesota carries 3.84 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.57 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 Minnesota 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 →
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