Average electric bill in Rhode Island
A typical Rhode Island household pays
$165a month · $1977 a year
That is 10% above the national average of $149, the 13th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 572 kilowatt hours a month at 29.46¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — July 2025
$213
Cheapest — September 2025
$135
The dearest month costs $78 more than the cheapest — 58% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. Rhode Island runs about 700 cooling degree days a year, so the summer bill is where any efficiency gain shows up.
Why the bill is what it is
A bill is a rate multiplied by a quantity, and in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 471,353 residential accounts in Rhode Island, 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 Rhode Island rate page for the underlying prices.