Independence from advertising
This site is funded by display advertising served through Google AdSense. Advertisers do not see our content before it is published, cannot request changes to it, and have no influence over which states we cover, how we rank them, or what we say about any utility, regulator or market.
We do not accept sponsored posts, paid links, guest posts placed for SEO purposes, or payment for favourable coverage. We have no affiliate relationships with energy retailers, brokers, solar installers or utilities, and we do not earn a commission if you switch supplier.
Advertisements are visually distinct from editorial content and are labelled. If you ever encounter an ad on this site that is not clearly distinguishable from our own content, please report it. That is a failure on our part.
Sourcing
Every numerical claim on this site is traceable to a named public source, and that source is cited on the page where the number appears, not buried in a general disclaimer. Where we calculate something ourselves, we say so and describe the calculation in the methodology.
We do not publish figures we cannot source. Where we know something is true qualitatively but cannot source a specific number, such as the split between supply and delivery in a given state, we describe it qualitatively rather than inventing precision.
Corrections
We correct factual errors as soon as we are aware of them. Report one at hello@staterates.org or through the contact page.
- Data revisions. When the EIA revises a published figure, we replace ours to match. The source of record is EIA and carrying a stale number would be worse than a silent update.
- Factual errors in editorial text. Corrected, with a dated correction note on the affected page where the error was substantive enough to have misled a reader.
- Typographical and formatting fixes. Made without a note.
Use of AI
We use software to fetch, normalise and validate data, and we use AI-assisted tooling in drafting and editing. Every factual claim published on this site is checked by a person against a source before it goes live, and we take responsibility for what appears here regardless of how it was drafted.
We do not mass-generate pages from a template with only a number swapped. Each state page carries explanation specific to that state, because a page that says nothing a reader could not get from a spreadsheet has no reason to exist.
What we will not publish
- Personalised financial advice. We describe how rates and bills work; we do not advise on individual decisions.
- Rate predictions presented as forecasts. Where we discuss trajectory we describe the mechanism and its direction, and label it as such.
- Comparisons that would mislead, for example presenting a state average as though it were a rate you could sign up for.
- Content whose main purpose is to rank for a search term rather than to answer a question.
Reader data
The tools on this site, the bill calculator in particular, run entirely in your browser. Nothing you type into them is transmitted to us or stored. See the privacy policy for what is collected, by whom, and how to control it.