Is my use high?
Preview Version 0.1.0Compare a year of your electricity use with the average home of your utility and your state, and see your seasonal swing.
Compared with the utility average
20%
This home's 14,400 kWh a year is 20% more than the utility's average home and 20% more than the state's (EIA-861, 2025).
EIACross-checked · Two worked examples from the spec's scenarios pass, and three utilities' averages computed by hand from their EIA-861 rows match. State averages computed from EIA-861 2024 match EIA's published Table 5A average monthly residential consumption in all 51 states. What this means
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Your utility's average home
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How we got this
Method
Sum the latest 12 periods, or scale fewer to 365 days by the days they cover. Compare with EIA-861's average residential use per customer (residential sales ÷ residential customers) for the utility and the state, as a percent difference. Then compare the highest and lowest periods by kWh per day.
Steps
- A year of use: 14,400 kWh, the sum of the latest 12 periods (365 days).
- The utility's average home: 12,000 kWh a year (residential sales ÷ residential customers, EIA-861, 2025). 14,400 kWh ÷ 12,000 kWh − 1 = 20%.
- The state's average home: 12,000 kWh a year (EIA-861, 2025). 14,400 kWh ÷ 12,000 kWh − 1 = 20%.
- These are averages across homes of every size and heating type. EIA-861 publishes no distribution, so there is no percentile or rank.
- Highest period: February 1, 2025 to February 28, 2025, 42.9 kWh a day. Lowest: January 1, 2025 to January 31, 2025, 38.7 kWh a day. The highest is 1.1× the lowest.
Assumptions
- State averages leave out delivery-only rows, whose customers EIA also counts under the company that sells them energy; this is how EIA's Table 5A counts them.
- A partial year is scaled by days, so a year with a hot summer and a mild winter in the missing months reads high or low.
Sources
- EIA, Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861), 2025, Sales to Ultimate Customers: residential sales (MWh) and customers
- EIA, Electric Sales, Revenue, and Average Price, 2024, Table 5A, average monthly residential consumption by state
Known limits
- An average includes homes of every size, age, and heating type; a large or all-electric home can be well above it and use energy well.
- EIA-861 publishes no distribution of use, so this shows no percentile, rank, or "homes like yours".
- The averages are for the latest EIA-861 year, which may differ from the year of your bills.