About BillShocker
BillShocker (billshocker.com) answers one question: why did your electric bill go up, and how much higher is it headed? It is built on one promise — every hard number on this site carries its source and its date. A figure we cannot verify renders as an explicit dash or “TBD”, never a guess dressed up as data.
The reason this site can say anything about the future at all is a quirk of how US electricity markets work: part of what a bill will do next is decided years in advance. In the PJM grid region, capacity prices for coming delivery years clear at public auction — contract results, not forecasts. We combine those already-fixed prices with the official monthly averages to show where a bill stands and where it is headed, and we label anything trend-based as context, not a promise.
What the site does
- The Bill Shock Calculator — enter your state and bill to see where you stand against the official average and what the projected changes mean in dollars. It runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
- State pages for all 50 states and D.C. — average bill, price, and usage from the latest EIA month, with a 12-month price history.
- Cost-to-run guides — what each appliance costs at your state's current rate, from DOE-sourced wattages.
- The 2027 study — every jurisdiction ranked by projected bill increase, with the full methodology and a downloadable CSV.
Where the data comes from
Three official sources, each linked next to the numbers it backs:
- U.S. Energy Information Administration residential retail sales (public domain) — prices, usage, and bills. Refreshed monthly; the latest month in the dataset is April 2026. EIA publishes about two months in arrears, so that is the most recent official month that exists.
- PJM capacity auction results — the already-cleared prices behind the “locked” projection lines.
- DOE Energy Saver appliance wattages — the basis of the cost-to-run pages, labeled as representative figures when DOE gives a range.
When EIA has not reported a state's figures for the latest month, the page says so and shows a dash — and it stays out of search results until it carries real numbers again.
What BillShocker is not
BillShocker is not an electricity supplier, not a broker, and not affiliated with any utility, grid operator, or government agency. It is an independent information site. Some outbound links may be affiliate links (see the affiliate disclosure); this never changes the data we show or how states are ranked.
Found a number that looks wrong or out of date? That is the most useful email you can send. Reach us at contact@billshocker.com and we will re-check the source.