Alaska Electricity Rates, Providers & Generation
In Alaska, the average residential electricity rate is 26.01¢ per kilowatt-hour, ranking 44th nationally; the typical home spends $147 per month on electricity; 11% of generation comes from renewable sources.
Alaska electricity overview
Production, consumption, and emissions for Alaska based on the most recent reported year (2025).
- Population
- 737,270
- Total production
- 19.1 TWh 25.86 MWh per capita
- Total consumption
- 6.1 TWh 8.30 MWh per capita
- Production from renewables
- 2.0 TWh 10.7% of generation
- Production from non-renewables
- 17.0 TWh
Alaska electricity rates & bills
Average residential electricity rate in Alaska, last 22 months.
| Sector | Avg rate (¢/kWh) |
|---|---|
| Residential | 26.01¢ |
| Commercial | 22.30¢ |
| Industrial | 20.07¢ |
How Alaska generates electricity
Generation mix from in-state power plants over the most recent twelve months, by fuel category.
- Renewable
- Nuclear
- Fossil
- Other
| Fuel | Share | Generation |
|---|---|---|
| fossil fuels | 22.9% | 4.4 TWh |
| natural gas & other gases | 12.6% | 2.4 TWh |
| natural gas | 12.6% | 2.4 TWh |
| renewable | 11.3% | 2.2 TWh |
| conventional hydroelectric | 10.3% | 2.0 TWh |
| petroleum liquids | 5.6% | 1.1 TWh |
| petroleum | 5.6% | 1.1 TWh |
| coal, excluding waste coal | 4.0% | 775.4 GWh |
| all coal products | 4.0% | 775.4 GWh |
| distillate fuel oil | 3.3% | 643.9 GWh |
| lignite coal | 2.3% | 437.2 GWh |
| waste oil and other oils | 2.0% | 385.7 GWh |
| all renewables | 0.9% | 182.1 GWh |
| onshore wind turbine | 0.7% | 128.8 GWh |
| wind | 0.5% | 96.5 GWh |
| subbituminous coal | 0.5% | 95.0 GWh |
| biomass | 0.2% | 40.1 GWh |
| renewable waste products | 0.2% | 40.1 GWh |
| landfill gas | 0.2% | 39.9 GWh |
| municiapl landfill gas | 0.2% | 39.9 GWh |
| estimated small scale solar photovoltaic | 0.1% | 21.3 GWh |
Alaska production fuel makeup
Share of in-state generation by fuel over the latest twelve months.
- fossil fuels22.9%
- natural gas & other gases12.6%
- natural gas12.6%
- renewable11.3%
- conventional hydroelectric10.3%
- petroleum liquids5.6%
- petroleum5.6%
- coal, excluding waste coal4.0%
- all coal products4.0%
- distillate fuel oil3.3%
- lignite coal2.3%
- waste oil and other oils2.0%
- all renewables0.9%
- onshore wind turbine0.7%
- wind0.5%
- subbituminous coal0.5%
- biomass0.2%
- renewable waste products0.2%
- landfill gas0.2%
- municiapl landfill gas0.2%
- estimated small scale solar photovoltaic0.1%
Electric utilities in Alaska
The 2 electric distribution utilities that serve Alaska, by customers served. These are the companies that deliver power and handle outages.
| Utility | Parent company | Customers served | Outage map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chugach Electric Assn Inc | — | 113,000 | — |
| Matanuska Electric Assn Inc | — | 72,900 | Outage map |
Residential electricity providers in Alaska
10 utilities and retail providers serving residential customers, ordered by customer count.
| Provider | Type | Customers | Annual sales | Avg rate | Avg bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chugach Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 97,048 | 590.9 GWh | 21.24¢ | — |
| Matanuska Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 64,205 | 466.9 GWh | 23.37¢ | — |
| Golden Valley Elec Assn Inc | Cooperative | 40,675 | 288.7 GWh | 30.32¢ | — |
| Homer Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 29,721 | 177.1 GWh | 29.79¢ | — |
| Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. | Investor-owned | 15,407 | 170.6 GWh | 12.93¢ | — |
| Alaska Village Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 7,689 | 43.9 GWh | 69.95¢ | — |
| Ketchikan Public Utilities | Municipal | 6,561 | 78.0 GWh | 12.48¢ | — |
| Alaska Power and Telephone Co | Investor-owned | 5,737 | 28.0 GWh | 37.18¢ | — |
| Kodiak Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 4,772 | 39.8 GWh | 18.83¢ | — |
| Kotzebue Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 1,227 | 7.7 GWh | 47.90¢ | — |
Commercial electricity providers in Alaska
11 providers serving commercial customers, ordered by annual sales.
| Provider | Type | Customers | Annual sales | Avg rate | Avg bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chugach Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 16,325 | 1.2 TWh | 16.88¢ | — |
| Matanuska Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 6,849 | 321.4 GWh | 20.25¢ | — |
| Homer Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 4,415 | 160.8 GWh | 26.39¢ | — |
| Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. | Investor-owned | 2,459 | 126.1 GWh | 10.76¢ | — |
| Golden Valley Elec Assn Inc | Cooperative | 6,905 | 119.0 GWh | 29.15¢ | — |
| Alaska Village Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 3,829 | 81.6 GWh | 56.80¢ | — |
| Ketchikan Public Utilities | Municipal | 1,389 | 76.7 GWh | 12.03¢ | — |
| Alaska Power and Telephone Co | Investor-owned | 2,719 | 50.7 GWh | 31.31¢ | — |
| TDX North Slope Generating Co | Investor-owned | 162 | 47.7 GWh | 24.81¢ | — |
| Kodiak Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 1,363 | 24.4 GWh | 18.64¢ | — |
| Kotzebue Electric Assn Inc | Cooperative | 127 | 11.6 GWh | 45.49¢ | — |
Power plant map of Alaska
151 power plants in Alaska with known coordinates, plotted by location. Marker size reflects nameplate capacity; color shows primary fuel.
- Renewable
- Nuclear
- Fossil
- Other
Power plants in Alaska
Largest in-state electricity generators by annual net generation, with associated CO2 emissions where available.
| Plant | County | Fuel | Capacity | Generation | CO₂ | CO₂/MWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George M Sullivan Generation Plant 2 | — | NG | 347 MW | 911.3 GWh | 379.3 k tonnes | 416 kg |
| Southcentral Power Project | — | NG | 204 MW | 905.3 GWh | 414.2 k tonnes | 458 kg |
| Eklutna Generation Station | — | NG | 171 MW | 717.0 GWh | 328.1 k tonnes | 458 kg |
| North Pole | — | DFO | 181 MW | 444.7 GWh | 293.1 k tonnes | 659 kg |
| Nikiski Combined Cycle | — | NG | 81 MW | 416.8 GWh | 196.7 k tonnes | 472 kg |
| Bradley Lake | — | WAT | 126 MW | 395.1 GWh | — | — |
| Healy | — | LIG | 93 MW | 375.8 GWh | 153.8 k tonnes | 409 kg |
| Snettisham | — | WAT | 78 MW | 302.1 GWh | — | — |
| Eklutna Hydro Project | — | WAT | 44 MW | 197.8 GWh | — | — |
| Chena Power Plant | — | SUB | 28 MW | 143.4 GWh | 125.0 k tonnes | 872 kg |
| Terror Lake Microgrid | — | WAT | 34 MW | 137.7 GWh | — | — |
| Tyee Lake Hydroelectric Facility | — | WAT | 23 MW | 119.1 GWh | — | — |
| Lake Dorothy Hydroelectric Project | — | WAT | 14 MW | 88.6 GWh | — | — |
| Eielson AFB Central Heat & Power Plant | — | SUB | 36 MW | 86.9 GWh | 45.5 k tonnes | 524 kg |
| Blue Lake Hydro | — | WAT | 16 MW | 80.3 GWh | — | — |
| Swan Lake | — | WAT | 23 MW | 70.6 GWh | — | — |
| Tesoro Kenai Cogeneration Plant | — | NG | 9 MW | 69.2 GWh | 18.3 k tonnes | 265 kg |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks | — | SUB | 40 MW | 68.6 GWh | 37.9 k tonnes | 553 kg |
| FWA Central Heat and Power Plant | — | SUB | 20 MW | 64.0 GWh | 38.0 k tonnes | 594 kg |
| TNSG North Plant | — | NG | 26 MW | 50.5 GWh | 36.3 k tonnes | 719 kg |
| Barrow | — | NG | 17 MW | 46.7 GWh | 41.0 k tonnes | 879 kg |
| Cooper Lake | — | WAT | 19 MW | 46.4 GWh | — | — |
| Fire Island Wind | — | WND | 18 MW | 46.3 GWh | — | — |
| Bethel | — | DFO | 14 MW | 43.9 GWh | 30.2 k tonnes | 688 kg |
| Dutch Harbor | — | DFO | 22 MW | 43.4 GWh | 28.9 k tonnes | 666 kg |
| Beaver Falls | — | WAT | 5 MW | 42.5 GWh | — | — |
| Green Lake | — | WAT | 19 MW | 41.8 GWh | — | — |
| JBER Landfill Gas Power Plant | — | LFG | 12 MW | 38.9 GWh | 1.0 tonnes | 0 kg |
| Hank Nikkels Plant 1 | — | NG | 78 MW | 37.1 GWh | 22.0 k tonnes | 592 kg |
| Solomon Gulch | — | WAT | 12 MW | 33.9 GWh | — | — |
| Eva Creek Wind | — | WND | 25 MW | 31.1 GWh | — | — |
| Unisea G 2 | — | DFO | 18 MW | 29.6 GWh | 23.7 k tonnes | 799 kg |
| Salmon Creek 1 | — | WAT | 9 MW | 28.8 GWh | — | — |
| Kotzebue Hybrid | — | DFO | 18 MW | 24.2 GWh | 12.7 k tonnes | 526 kg |
| Pillar Mountain Wind Project Microgrid | — | WND | 9 MW | 24.1 GWh | — | — |
| Valdez Cogen | — | WO | 5 MW | 24.0 GWh | 14.6 k tonnes | 609 kg |
| Naknek | — | DFO | 17 MW | 23.5 GWh | 9.2 k tonnes | 392 kg |
| Ketchikan | — | WAT | 4 MW | 22.4 GWh | — | — |
| Soldotna | — | NG | 97 MW | 21.6 GWh | 11.7 k tonnes | 542 kg |
| Allison Creek Hydro | — | WAT | 7 MW | 21.0 GWh | — | — |
| Black Bear Lake | — | WAT | 5 MW | 20.4 GWh | — | — |
| Power Creek | — | WAT | 6 MW | 19.2 GWh | — | — |
| Dillingham | — | DFO | 11 MW | 18.7 GWh | 13.3 k tonnes | 711 kg |
| Westward Seafoods | — | DFO | 7 MW | 18.6 GWh | 6.9 k tonnes | 371 kg |
| Goat Lake Hydro | — | WAT | 4 MW | 15.8 GWh | — | — |
| Purple Lake | — | WAT | 4 MW | 12.5 GWh | — | — |
| Silvis | — | WAT | 2 MW | 11.5 GWh | — | — |
| Tok | — | DFO | 8 MW | 11.3 GWh | 8.0 k tonnes | 710 kg |
| Whitman | — | WAT | 5 MW | 10.6 GWh | — | — |
| Gold Creek | — | DFO | 10 MW | 9.1 GWh | 9.4 tonnes | 1 kg |
Data centers & crypto mining in Alaska
Data centers and cryptocurrency-mining operations are large electricity consumers that show up inside Alaska's commercial and industrial load. EIA does not publish a facility-level data-center inventory, so the figures below pair reported commercial and industrial sales with EIA estimates of data-center and crypto-mining electricity demand.
No state-level EIA estimate of cryptocurrency-mining load is available for Alaska; mining is concentrated in a handful of states.
Quick facts about electricity in Alaska
- The average residential electricity rate in Alaska is 26.01¢ per kWh, the 44th lowest among the 50 states and DC.
- The typical residential electricity bill in Alaska is $147 per month.
- Alaska's largest source of in-state generation is fossil fuels, at 22.9% of the mix.
- Renewable sources account for 10.7% of the electricity generated in Alaska.
- Alaska generated 19.1 TWh of electricity in the most recent reported year.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average electricity rate in Alaska?
The average residential electricity rate in Alaska was 26.01¢ per kilowatt-hour as of 2025, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data, ranking 44th among the 50 states and DC.
What is the average electricity bill in Alaska?
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Alaska was $147 in 2025. This figure is calculated from total annual residential revenue divided by average customer count over twelve months, using EIA Form 861 data.
Can I choose my electricity provider in Alaska?
No. Most residential customers receive electricity from a regulated utility serving their area.
What share of Alaska's electricity comes from renewable sources?
In 2025, 10.7% of electricity generated in Alaska came from renewable sources (wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biomass), based on EIA Form 923 data.
How much electricity do data centers use in Alaska?
Data centers in Alaska are estimated to use about 312.8 GWh of electricity per year, roughly 5.1% of the state's electricity sales. EIA does not publish facility-level data-center data; this is an estimate that apportions national EIA/DOE data-center figures by Alaska's share of U.S. commercial electricity sales.