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Open For now, watching since 26 August 2026

The electricity promise, month by month

Does the average US residential electricity price come down from 18.34 cents a kilowatt-hour, and does the administration ever restate a target date?

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days to go, on 24 September 2026

Where it stands

  • Broken Energy bills one half what they are now, within a year of January 20, 2025. Deadline Jan 20, 2026: price was up 9.5 percent, not down 50
  • Not yet due A restated target date for lower prices, if one is ever given. Whenever the White House names one

The people

  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump

    President of the United States

    Promised at a rally on Oct 3, 2024 that energy bills would be one half within a year of taking office. Signed Executive Order 14421 on Aug 26, 2026 declaring a national emergency over the bulk-power system.

Filings since 26 August 2026

Named in the record

What would settle it

The government's own number. EIA's Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.3, publishes the average residential price about three weeks after each month ends. The promise was a halving from the January 2025 level of 15.94 cents by January 20, 2026; the price was 17.45 cents that month and 18.34 cents in June 2026. Each new table is a fact on this page. A restated target date from the White House would open a second, separately scored claim.

On the record since then

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  1. 2026-08-26 Data EIA Electric Power Monthly, released Aug 26: average residential price 18.34 cents per kilowatt-hour for June 2026, the latest month published. That is 15 percent above the January 2025 starting point. Source
  2. 2026-08-26 Filing Executive Order 14421 declares a national emergency over the bulk-power system, naming data centres, AI and advanced manufacturing as the cause of rising demand. Source
  3. 2026-01-20 Data The promise's own deadline. EIA puts January 2026 at 17.45 cents against 15.94 cents in January 2025: up 9.5 percent, against a promised fall of 50 percent. Source
  4. 2024-10-03 Statement Saginaw, Michigan rally: "one year from January 20th, your energy bills will be one-half what they are right now, 50 percent, 5-0." Source

Closes come from a market data feed and can lag a session; the date is printed next to every number. Filings come from EDGAR. Nothing on this page is advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Built on Promised to halve your electricity bill in a year. Twenty-two months later he declared an emergency over the grid..