Block Island Utility District Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Political Subdivision|EIA utility 1857|Rhode Island|Bundled
In 2024, Block Island Utility District's residential customers paid an average of 39.66 cents per kWh: $3.0 million of revenue over 7,576 MWh of sales across 1,629 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 39.66c figure is calculated
39.66c/kWh = $3,005k revenue / 7,576 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Block Island Utility District billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $397 before taxes.
About Block Island Utility District's 2024 electricity prices
Block Island Utility District is a public power district or political-subdivision electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 1857. In 2024 it served 1,629 bundled residential customers in Rhode Island, and its average realised residential price was 39.66 cents per kWh: $3.0 million of residential revenue divided by 7,576 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Block Island Utility District's 2024 average prices were 40.88 cents for commercial customers (384 accounts).
Within Rhode Island, Block Island Utility District ranked number 3 of 3 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (1,629) and accounted for 0.24% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 28.65 cents per kWh, so Block Island Utility District's customers paid 11.01 cents above the Rhode Island average (+38.4%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Rhode Island is 29.23 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.
EIA's service-territory file places Block Island Utility District in 1 Rhode Island county: Washington. On the grid side it operates in the NPCC NERC region and the ISO New England market, and reported generation and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: ISNE.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 38.67 cents per kWh for Block Island Utility District in Rhode Island across 1,637 residential customers, 0.99 cents lower than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.
The nearest other utilities in Rhode Island by service-territory centroid are The Narragansett Electric Co (17.9 miles away, 28.26 cents) and Pascoag Utility District (32.8 miles away, 16.52 cents). Other Rhode Island utilities of similar size include MP2 Energy LLC (39,395 residential accounts served, 14.65 cents), Champion Energy Services (225,587 residential accounts served, 9.98 cents), and Ambit Energy Holdings, LLC (426,878 residential accounts served, 18.77 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 1,629 | 7,576 | 3,005 | 39.66 |
| Commercial | 384 | 7,148 | 2,922 | 40.88 |
Counties served in Rhode Island (1)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Rhode Island: 38.67c/kWh (-0.99c vs 2024 final), 1,637 residential customers; commercial 40.24c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Rhode Island
- EIA utility number
- 1857
- Ownership type
- Political Subdivision
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Rhode Island
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (RI, price basis)
- 1,629
- Residential accounts served (RI)
- 1,629
- All accounts, all sectors (RI)
- 2,013
- Residential price, 2024
- 39.66 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 40.88 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 7,576 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $3.0 million
- Rank in Rhode Island by residential accounts served
- 3 of 3
- Share of Rhode Island residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.24%
- Rhode Island average, 2024
- 28.65 c/kWh
- Counties served (RI)
- 1
- NERC region
- NPCC
- RTO / ISO
- ISO New England
- Balancing authority
- ISNE
- Reported activities
- Generation, Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 38.67 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- -0.99 c/kWh
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].