As a follow-up to the Energy Institute’s map illustrating how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) outreach on greenhouse gas rules is avoiding the ten states that obtain the largest percentage of their electric power from coal, we analyzed the prices of electricity in those ten states and compared them to the national average retail electricity price. Not surprisingly, the ten states that have the largest percentages of electricity generated from coal also benefit from lower electricity prices than the national average. This map shows those lower prices, while also identifying the EPA listening session locations that are being held entirely outside of these lower-cost states.
