New Mexico electricity prices - 16.09¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in New Mexico costs 16.09¢/kWh as of - +1.8% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average New Mexico home used 942 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $151.51 (+7.4% vs a year earlier).
- New Mexico has the 27th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 12% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 16.09¢ | +1.8% |
| Commercial | 11.90¢ | −4.5% |
| Industrial | 4.16¢ | −27.5% |
Water
Electricity delivered in New Mexico carries 3.63 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.14 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 New Mexico accounts for about 95.8 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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