Mississippi
Electricity costs 14.03¢/kWh residential, ranking #18 cheapest in the US. 4.3% renewable energy.
14.03¢
Residential Rate
#18
Price Rank (Cheapest)
4.3%
Renewable Energy
#47
Renewable Rank
Electricity Rates
| Residential | 14.03¢/kWh |
| Commercial | 13.03¢/kWh |
| Industrial | 7.38¢/kWh |
| National Average | 17.92¢/kWh |
Electricity Generation Mix
Natural Gas
77.6%
Nuclear
13.8%
Coal
4.3%
Solar
2.2%
Other
1.7%
Wind
0.4%
Frequently Asked Questions
The residential electricity rate in Mississippi is 14.03¢ per kilowatt-hour, ranking #18 cheapest out of 51 states. The national average is 17.92¢/kWh, making Mississippi 22% below average.
4.3% of Mississippi's electricity comes from renewable sources, ranking #47 among all states. The largest generation source is Natural Gas at 77.6%.
Mississippi's residential rate of 14.03¢/kWh is 22% below the national average of 17.92¢/kWh. Commercial rates are 13.03¢/kWh and industrial rates are 7.38¢/kWh.
Electricity rates from EIA retail sales data. Prices in cents per kilowatt-hour. Generation mix from EIA electric power operational data. Rankings based on residential rates.
The this entity record above pulls directly from the EIA Open Data API and State Electricity Profiles. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. state-level electricity rates and generation mix distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to the EIA Open Data API and State Electricity Profiles; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. states. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2026.