Average electric bill in Utah
A typical Utah household pays
$102a month · $1227 a year
That is 31% below the national average of $149, the 50th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 767 kilowatt hours a month at 12.96¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — July 2025
$150
Cheapest — April 2026
$79
The dearest month costs $71 more than the cheapest — 91% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. Utah runs about 1,100 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 Utah 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 Utah's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 1,281,310 residential accounts in Utah, 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 Utah rate page for the underlying prices.