Vermont electricity prices - 23.75¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Vermont costs 23.75¢/kWh as of - +7.3% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Vermont home used 617 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $146.51 (−0.8% vs a year earlier).
- Vermont has the 12th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 30% above the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 23.75¢ | +7.3% |
| Commercial | 20.71¢ | +6.8% |
| Industrial | 13.07¢ | +6.9% |
Water
Electricity delivered in Vermont 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 Vermont 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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