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Kansas

Residential electricity rates · latest Apr 2026

Avg monthly bill
$100
The monthly tab
Typical residential bill — $13 lower than the 2019 average.
Residential rate
15.8¢
Price per kWh
Cents per kilowatt-hour. +24% vs. the 2019 average.
National rank
45th
League rank
Fastest-rising residential rate since 2019, of 51 states.
Home vs. industry
15.8¢ / 8.2¢
Home vs. away
Homes pay 15.8¢/kWh; large industry pays 8.2¢/kWh — 92% more for households.

Your rate vs. grid demand

Southwest Power Pool demand · Kansas rate

Amber = the grid region's average demand (GW, left). Red = the state's residential rate (¢/kWh, right). The rate line ends a couple months early because EIA reports retail data on a lag.

Homes vs. industry

Kansas · ¢/kWh

What households pay (red) vs. large industrial users (dashed). The shaded band is the gap — the affordability story behind data-center load growth.

Most of Kansas's power runs through Southwest Power Pool, where grid demand rose 12% over the same period — a signature of the always-on, data-center-driven load reshaping the grid.

EIA derives the rate as revenue ÷ electricity sold — a proxy, not a surveyed tariff. Rates rise for many reasons (fuel costs, grid upgrades, storms), not data centers alone, so this shows correlation, not causation. Note the rate is a statewide residential average while the demand is the regional grid operator's — related, but not the same geography.