{
  "id": "methodology.electricity_cost.us.v1",
  "label": "US electricity price",
  "version": "1",
  "summary": "Average residential electricity price by state, sourced from EIA public-domain data.",
  "steps": [
    "Pull average retail price (residential) from EIA",
    "Normalize to USD/kWh by state and national",
    "Attach freshness from the EIA release cadence"
  ],
  "assumptions": [
    "Residential sector unless otherwise noted"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Reflects the latest EIA period in the snapshot; refresh via `npm run ingest`"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "source.us_eia.electricity"
  ],
  "formulas": [],
  "updated": "2026-06-04"
}