Average electric bill in Maine
A typical Maine household pays
$155a month · $1863 a year
That is 4% above the national average of $149, the 26th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 537 kilowatt hours a month at 28.63¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — February 2026
$204
Cheapest — June 2025
$123
The dearest month costs $81 more than the cheapest — 66% higher and it is heating that does it, in a state with 7,500 heating degree days. If that heat is electric, the winter bill is where the savings are.
Why the bill is what it is
A bill is a rate multiplied by a quantity, and in Maine the price per kilowatt hour is doing most of the work. Comparing your own bill to this figure only tells you something once you know which of the two you could actually change — the rate is largely fixed, the quantity is not.
Heating and cooling are usually the largest movable part. Whether that means a heat pump, a more efficient air conditioner, or neither depends on Maine's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 739,364 residential accounts in Maine, from the US Energy Information Administration. They describe the state, not your house — square footage, insulation and what you keep the thermostat at move an individual bill a long way. See the Maine rate page for the underlying prices.