Utah electricity prices - 13.37¢/kWh (June 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Utah costs 13.37¢/kWh as of - +2.1% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Utah home used 900 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $120.25 (−2.8% vs a year earlier).
- Utah has the 49th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 27% below the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (June 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 13.37¢ | +2.1% |
| Commercial | 10.99¢ | +4.1% |
| Industrial | 9.22¢ | +8.7% |
Data centers & Utah's electric bills
Utah's SB132, signed in March 2025, lets loads of 100 MW or more bypass Rocky Mountain Power and secure their own generation - on or off the grid - if the utility cannot serve them without significant new investment. Separately, Utah regulators approved a settlement in August 2026 ending Rocky Mountain Power's rate fight with a 4.2% general rate increase and a rate freeze through 2028, after the utility's original ask of 30.5% had been reduced to 18.1% and then rejected.
- 2025-03 - Utah's SB132, signed in late March 2025, modified Rocky Mountain Power's duty to serve loads of 100 MW or more, giving the utility 90 days to determine whether it can serve a large-load request without significant new investment and, if not, allowing the customer to contract with separate generation providers or build closed private generation systems entirely off the grid. Source: Latitude Media
- 2026-07-06 - Rocky Mountain Power's proposed Utah settlement, reported July 6, 2026, included a $93 million general rate increase of 4.2% - about $3.44 per month for an average residential customer - after the utility's initial 30.5% rate-increase proposal was reduced to 18.1% and regulators instead approved 4.7% the prior year. Source: KPCW (Utah News Dispatch)
- 2026-08 - The Utah Public Service Commission approved the Rocky Mountain Power settlement in August 2026, locking in the 4.2% general rate increase alongside a commitment not to seek further rate increases through 2028 and to invest $2.2 billion in Utah energy infrastructure, while consumer advocates criticized the closed-door settlement process as lacking transparency. Source: Daily Herald (Utah News Dispatch)
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 Utah carries 8.61 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.04 L/kWh excluding hydropower reservoir evaporation), against a national average of 4.28. That is above 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 Utah accounts for about 227.3 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 →