Electricity, per kWh priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2025
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Electricity, per kWh (per kWh) cost $0.14 in 2015 and $0.19 in 2025, a change of +36% in US dollars across 10 years. The figures are annual averages from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data, Electricity, per kWh (series APU000072610). The fiat peak in this series came in 2025 at $0.19.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 51,282 sats to 186 sats, a change of −99.6%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2021 to 2022, when this item moved +97% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
Residential electricity climbed steadily through the decade, with data-centre demand adding new pressure at the end of it.
Energy prices carry every shock in the world straight into household budgets. The comparison on the main page shows the same shocks against a unit nobody can print.
| Year | US dollars | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $0.14 | 51,282 |
| 2016 | $0.14 | 24,096 |
| 2017 | $0.14 | 3,314 |
| 2018 | $0.14 | 1,920 |
| 2019 | $0.14 | 1,886 |
| 2020 | $0.14 | 1,186 |
| 2021 | $0.14 | 293 |
| 2022 | $0.16 | 577 |
| 2023 | $0.17 | 577 |
| 2024 | $0.18 | 270 |
| 2025 | $0.19 | 186 |
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data, Electricity, per kWh (APU000072610). Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-05. Full method on the main page.