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Missouri

Residential electricity rates · latest Apr 2026

Avg monthly bill
$105
The monthly tab
Typical residential bill — $13 lower than the 2019 average.
Residential rate
14.0¢
Price per kWh
Cents per kilowatt-hour. +26% vs. the 2019 average.
National rank
40th
League rank
Fastest-rising residential rate since 2019, of 51 states.
Home vs. industry
14.0¢ / 8.3¢
Home vs. away
Homes pay 14.0¢/kWh; large industry pays 8.3¢/kWh — 69% more for households.

Your rate vs. grid demand

MISO demand · Missouri 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

Missouri · ¢/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 Missouri's power runs through MISO, where grid demand rose 3% 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.