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Oklahoma

Residential electricity rates · latest Apr 2026

Avg monthly bill
$101
The monthly tab
Typical residential bill — $13 lower than the 2019 average.
Residential rate
13.3¢
Price per kWh
Cents per kilowatt-hour. +30% vs. the 2019 average.
National rank
35th
League rank
Fastest-rising residential rate since 2019, of 51 states.
Home vs. industry
13.3¢ / 5.9¢
Home vs. away
Homes pay 13.3¢/kWh; large industry pays 5.9¢/kWh — 127% more for households.

Your rate vs. grid demand

Southwest Power Pool demand · Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma · ¢/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 Oklahoma'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.