New York electricity prices - 29.49¢/kWh (June 2026)

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

• Residential electricity in New York costs 29.49¢/kWh as of June 2026 - +11.1% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
• The average New York home used 574 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $169.26 (+14.7% vs a year earlier).
• New York has the 5th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 61% above the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.

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Data centers & New York's electric bills

New York issued the first statewide data-center moratorium in the country: Executive Order 62, announced July 14, 2026, pauses state environmental permits for data centers of 50 megawatts or more while a Generic Environmental Impact Statement is prepared. Separately, the Public Service Commission opened the Energize NY proceeding in February 2026 to make large loads cover the grid costs of their expansion or supply their own energy, with over 11 gigawatts of large-load requests in the NYISO interconnection queue as of January 2026.

• 2026-02-12 - On February 12, 2026, Governor Hochul announced the Public Service Commission had instituted the Energize NY Development proceeding to review interconnection processes, cost-allocation mechanisms, and tariff structures for large loads, under a plan requiring data centers to cover the utility costs of their expansion or supply their own energy. Source: Governor Kathy Hochul press release
• 2026-01 - As of January 2026 the NYISO interconnection queue contained 48 projects representing over 11 gigawatts of new large load, much of it tied to energy-intensive industries such as data centers. Source: Governor Kathy Hochul press release
• 2026-07-14 - Executive Order No. 62, issued July 14, 2026, directs the Department of Environmental Conservation to hold in abeyance all discretionary state permit applications for construction or expansion of data centers consuming 50 megawatts or more until a Generic Environmental Impact Statement and findings are complete. Source: New York Executive Order No. 62
• 2026-07-14 - Alongside the July 14, 2026 moratorium announcement, Governor Hochul said she would pursue legislation to repeal sales tax exemptions for data centers. Source: Governor Kathy Hochul press release

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.

Water

Electricity delivered in New York carries 1.33 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (0.63 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 York accounts for about 35.1 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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