Description
The Commercial Electricity Costs, Historical, Baseline, US (v1.0) dataset summarizes multi-year electricity price trends and variability by state, including percent changes, mean prices, and volatility measures. These indicators provide a snapshot of historical price performance and serve as a foundation for regional benchmarking and future scenario modeling.
Technical Description
The Commercial Electricity Costs, Historical, Baseline, US (v1.0) dataset is derived from the time series data by aggregating electricity prices across multiple lookback periods to produce summary metrics for each state. For each state, three temporal windows are evaluated—2-year, 5-year, and 10-year periods, ending with the most recent available year. Within each window, the dataset computes (1) the percent change in average price from the first to the last observation, (2) the mean price across the period, and (3) the standard deviation of prices as a measure of volatility. These summary metrics provide a spatially explicit baseline of commercial electricity cost dynamics, enabling regional comparisons, risk assessments, and input to modeling frameworks that depend on historical cost variability.