North Dakota electricity prices - 14.12¢/kWh (June 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in North Dakota costs 14.12¢/kWh as of - +3.0% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average North Dakota home used 805 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $113.65 (+5.9% vs a year earlier).
- North Dakota has the 46th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 23% below the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (June 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 14.12¢ | +3.0% |
| Commercial | 8.02¢ | −0.2% |
| Industrial | 8.32¢ | +8.1% |
Water
Electricity delivered in North Dakota carries 3.83 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.32 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 North Dakota accounts for about 101.1 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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