Benchmark availability
No validated EIA snapshot is included in this release. The EIA benchmark feature is unavailable, and the calculator uses only the cents-per-kWh value you enter.
How calculations work
Calculations run in your browser using the values you enter. No live electricity-price data is fetched. Loading the page and its scripts requires ordinary web requests; these are not requests to a calculation API.
If a benchmark is added later
A future EIA benchmark would require a separately reviewed official snapshot covering 50 states and the District of Columbia for one common data period. Its source, data period, and retrieval date would be shown. It would be a state residential average revenue per kWh benchmark, not your utility rate or a live price quote. No unofficial price source would be substituted. This feature is not active in the current calculator.