The cost of energy was a huge campaign issue in the Garden State gubernatorial race last year, and a new report out of Washington D.C. says that New Jersey saw the largest electricity rate spike in the entire country over 2025.
Minority members of the Joint Economic Committee recently released state-by-state figures on average monthly utility bills, and the news is generally pretty grim. The report showed that electricity rates “increased significantly” in nearly every U.S. state in 2025, with residents in a dozen states seeing at least a 10% jump.
New Jersey “led” the way in terms of the increases, with the average electric bill rising 16.9% during 2025. The only spot in the country with a bigger increase was in Washington D.C., where the average increase ran 23.5%.
“American families don’t need a report to tell them that the President has broken his campaign promise to slash energy costs; they already feel the impact of President Trump’s actions every single day. But this report is yet another indication that sky-high costs are continuing to rise — and are continuing to hurt American families,” the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said in a statement.
The report released by the minority members of the Joint Economic Committee showed that, on average, American households paid roughly 6.4% more for electricity in 2025 than in the previous year. The full report used monthly data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration on residential electricity prices to calculate each state’s average bill.
Besides New Jersey, the states with the greatest increases in electricity bills were quite diverse in both their geographic location and political leanings. Indiana saw the second largest jump at 16.3%, closely followed by Illinois at 15.9%, with Pennsylvania (12.1%) Kentucky (11.8%), Maryland (11.6%), Tennessee (11.6%), New York (11.4%), Ohio (11.1%), Missouri (11%), Maine (10.6%) and Washington state (10.3%) all having double digit increases.
Only a handful of states saw their electricity rates decrease over 2025, including Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada, which had a whopping 18% decrease, by far the largest drop in the nation.
