Average electric bill in Wisconsin (WI)
A typical Wisconsin household pays
$124a month · $1494 a year
That is 17% below the national average of $151, the 41st highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 664 kilowatt hours a month at 19.06¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — July 2026
$173
Cheapest — October 2025
$103
The dearest month costs $69 more than the cheapest — 67% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. Wisconsin runs about 600 cooling degree days a year, so the summer bill is where any efficiency gain shows up.
Why the bill is what it is
A bill is a rate multiplied by a quantity, and in Wisconsin the amount of electricity used is doing most of the work. Comparing your own bill to this figure only tells you something once you know which of the two you could actually change — the rate is largely fixed, the quantity is not.
Heating and cooling are usually the largest movable part. Whether that means a heat pump, a more efficient air conditioner, or neither depends on Wisconsin's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 2,904,252 residential accounts in Wisconsin, from the US Energy Information Administration. They describe the state, not your house — square footage, insulation and what you keep the thermostat at move an individual bill a long way. See the Wisconsin rate page for the underlying prices.
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