---
title: "Residential Electricity Disconnections"
slug: utility-service-disconnections
summary: "Utilities disconnected residential electricity service for unpaid bills 13.4 million times in 2024"
category: "Courts"
unit: count
frequency: annual
direction: bidirectional
latest_value: 13447935.0
latest_period: "2024"
trend: unknown
last_updated: "2026-09-25T03:36:50Z"
source: "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Utility Disconnections Report"
source_url: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/residential/utility/
canonical_html: https://americandefault.org/indicators/utility-service-disconnections/
citation_apa: "Kilburn, R. (2026). Residential Electricity Disconnections [Data set]. American Default Research. https://americandefault.org/indicators/utility-service-disconnections/"
citation_chicago: "Kilburn, Ross. 2026. \"Residential Electricity Disconnections.\" American Default Research. https://americandefault.org/indicators/utility-service-disconnections/."
citation_mla: "Kilburn, Ross. \"Residential Electricity Disconnections.\" American Default Research, 2026, americandefault.org/indicators/utility-service-disconnections/."
---

# Residential Electricity Disconnections

> Utilities disconnected residential electricity service for unpaid bills 13.4 million times in 2024

## Current Reading

As of 2024, Residential Electricity Disconnections is **13.45 million**.

Form EIA-112, approved in October 2024, collected residential electricity and natural gas disconnections for nonpayment from utilities for data year 2024. EIA published the first report on April 14, 2026. This page's number is electricity only; EIA reports natural gas separately. It counts disconnection events, not households.

## What Changed

- EIA counted 13.4 million residential electricity disconnections for nonpayment in 2024. Natural gas is a separate count that EIA says not to add: 1.7 million in 2024.
- The counts are disconnection events, not households or customers, and EIA did not collect how long service stayed off.

## Recent Values

| Period | Value |
|--------|-------|
| 2024 | 13.448M |

## Methodology

This indicator carries annual observations and is interpreted as moving in both directions against household distress, with no single end of the range reading as the distressed one. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Utility Disconnections Report.
Automation: collected automatically on the daily refresh pipeline, with no hand entry.

## Source

U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Utility Disconnections Report — [https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/residential/utility/](https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/residential/utility/)

Data retrieved: 2026-09-25T03:36:50Z

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## Citation

**APA 7th**

    Kilburn, R. (2026). Residential Electricity Disconnections [Data set]. American Default Research. https://americandefault.org/indicators/utility-service-disconnections/

**Chicago (author-date)**

    Kilburn, Ross. 2026. "Residential Electricity Disconnections." American Default Research. https://americandefault.org/indicators/utility-service-disconnections/.

**MLA 9th**

    Kilburn, Ross. "Residential Electricity Disconnections." American Default Research, 2026, americandefault.org/indicators/utility-service-disconnections/.

Use **American Default Research** as the institutional name in source lists, bibliographies, and press citations. **American Default** is the brand and URL form. **American Distress Index (ADI)** is the product name for the national composite score.