Rhode Island electricity prices - 29.23¢/kWh (June 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Rhode Island costs 29.23¢/kWh as of - +8.9% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Rhode Island home used 485 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $141.64 (−7.7% vs a year earlier).
- Rhode Island has the 6th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 59% above the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (June 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 29.23¢ | +8.9% |
| Commercial | 22.70¢ | +2.5% |
| Industrial | 22.91¢ | +23.1% |
Water
Electricity delivered in Rhode Island carries 3.33 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 Rhode Island accounts for about 88 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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