Description
The Commercial Electricity Costs, Historical, Time Series, US (v1.0) dataset provides an annual time series of average commercial electricity prices across U.S. states, compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Forms EIA-826, EIA-861, and EIA-861M. It allows users to track trends in electricity costs over time to support market benchmarking, energy cost risks, and price analysis.
Technical Description
The Commercial Electricity Costs, Historical, Time Series, US (v1.0) dataset contains monthly average commercial electricity prices by U.S. state, retrieved through the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Open Data API using the commercial sector filter. Raw records are collected for the years 2014–2024 (inclusive) and include state codes, reporting periods, and electricity prices in cents per kilowatt-hour. The data are cleaned to ensure valid numeric types and standardized timestamps, with missing or invalid state geometries removed. The resulting dataset provides a complete monthly price time series suitable for spatial visualization, time trend analysis, or integration with other regional economic or energy datasets.