● Live data product

US Electricity Rates API

Name: HI US Electricity Rates API
Price: 29 USD

Current average electricity price for every US state + DC across 4 sectors (residential, commercial, industrial, all-sectors) — clean JSON or CSV. Real EIA data, public-domain, refreshed monthly.

51states + DC

4sectors

204data points

14.2¢US avg · all sectors

Why use it

Skip building & maintaining an EIA pipeline — one clean endpoint, always current
Normalized to ¢/kWh, every state & sector, JSON or CSV
Public-domain source + capture date on every response (cite-safe for AI)
Built for: solar / EV / energy apps, budgeting tools, AI assistants, research

Try it

Live endpoint (works on deploy; locally via wrangler pages dev dist):

GET https://hiinformation.com/api/v1/electricity/prices?state=CA&sector=residential

Example response:

{
  "product": "HI US Electricity Rates API",
  "unit": "cents per kWh",
  "source": "U.S. EIA (public domain)",
  "period": "2026 YTD (through March)",
  "capturedAt": "2026-06-05",
  "confidence": "verified",
  "national": {
    "residential": 17.83
  },
  "tier": "free",
  "count": 1,
  "data": [
    {
      "state": "California",
      "abbrev": "CA",
      "residential": 32.08
    }
  ]
}

Endpoints

Request	Returns
`/api/v1/electricity/prices`	all 51 jurisdictions, all sectors
`?state=TX`	one state (2-letter code)
`?sector=commercial`	one sector
`?format=csv`	CSV download

Spec: /api/openapi.json · download full CSV (live on deploy)

Pricing

Plan	Price	For
Free	$0	Trial · attribution required
Developer	$29/mo	Production apps · higher limits
Business	$199/mo	Bulk CSV · commercial license · SLA

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Source & license

Data: U.S. EIA (public domain), period 2026 YTD (through March). Cheapest all-sectors: North Dakota (8.62¢) · most expensive: Hawaii (37.15¢). Methodology: electricity price.