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Table 7c. U.S. Regional Electricity Prices Cents per Kilowatthour
	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Residential Sector
New England	16.0	16.7	17.6	17.6	17.4
Middle Atlantic	13.4	14.0	15.2	15.1	15.4
East North Central	9.1	9.7	10.5	10.9	10.9
West North Central	8.1	8.3	8.7	9.1	9.0
South Atlantic	9.8	10.0	10.7	11.3	11.1
East South Central	8.2	8.4	9.3	9.6	9.4
West South Central	11.5	11.2	11.8	11.4	11.2
Mountain	9.0	9.3	9.8	10.2	10.1
Pacific	11.6	11.8	11.9	12.4	12.3
U.S. Average	10.4	10.7	11.4	11.6	11.5
Commercial Sector
New England	14.5	14.7	15.5	16.0	15.7
Middle Atlantic	12.7	13.2	14.0	13.5	13.6
East North Central	8.2	8.5	8.9	9.0	8.9
West North Central	6.6	6.8	7.1	7.4	7.2
South Atlantic	8.5	8.7	9.4	9.7	9.5
East South Central	7.9	8.1	9.0	9.3	9.2
West South Central	9.3	9.3	10.1	9.4	9.5
Mountain	7.6	7.8	8.3	8.5	8.4
Pacific	11.2	11.2	11.4	12.0	12.1
U.S. Average	9.5	9.6	10.3	10.3	10.2
Industrial Sector
New England	11.6	12.7	13.3	11.9	12.0
Middle Atlantic	7.8	7.8	8.7	8.6	8.5
East North Central	5.4	5.9	6.4	6.7	6.6
West North Central	4.9	5.1	5.4	5.7	5.5
South Atlantic	5.5	5.7	6.3	6.8	6.7
East South Central	4.8	5.0	5.7	6.0	5.9
West South Central	7.2	7.1	8.1	6.6	6.4
Mountain	5.5	5.7	6.0	6.1	6.1
Pacific	7.9	7.9	8.0	8.2	8.2
U.S.Average	6.2	6.4	7.0	7.0	6.9
Average All Sectors^a
New England	14.5	15.1	15.8	15.6	15.5
Middle Atlantic	11.9	12.3	13.4	13.2	13.3
East North Central	7.5	8.0	8.6	9.0	8.9
West North Central	6.6	6.8	7.2	7.6	7.4
South Atlantic	8.4	8.7	9.4	9.9	9.8
East South Central	6.8	7.0	7.8	8.2	8.1
West South Central	9.4	9.3	10.2	9.4	9.4
Mountain	7.5	7.7	8.2	8.4	8.3
Pacific	10.6	10.7	10.9	11.4	11.4
U.S.Average	8.9	9.1	9.8	10.0	9.9

^a	Volume-weighted average of retail prices to residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors.

	- = no data available
	Notes: The approximate break between historical and forecast values is shown with historical data printed in bold; estimates and forecasts in italics.
	Regions refer to U.S. Census divisions.
	See "Census division" in EIA's Energy Glossary (http://www.eia.doe.gov/glossary/index.html) for a list of States in each region.
	Historical data: Latest data available from Energy Information Administration databases supporting the following reports: Electric Power Monthly, DOE/EIA-0226; and Electric Power Annual, DOE/EIA-0348.
	Minor discrepancies with published historical data are due to independent rounding.
	Projections: Generated by simulation of the EIA Regional Short-Term Energy Model.