The data shows the average retail price of electricity in the U.S. between 1990 and 2017. Here, the average retail price of electricity was at 10.54 cents per kilowatt hour in 2017.
Retail electricity prices in the U.S.
When Thomas A. Edison developed a system to generate and distribute electricity in order to market his greatest creation, the electric light bulb, he would have known little about the dramatic impact his invention would create on civilization 130 years after the inauguration of the world’s first power station on Pearl Street in Manhattan, New York.
