Alaska electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
28.23¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.39
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Alaska compares
At 28.23¢ per kWh, Alaska is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 45th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Alaska household uses
Electricity a month
588 kWh
Bill a month
$157
Households in Alaska use 32% less electricity than the national average and pay 5% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 28.23¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate pulls the other way here: 10,500 heating degree days against 0 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
Averaged over twelve months across 304,489 residential accounts in Alaska. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Alaska sees around 200 freezing nights a year. Whether a heat pump beats a furnace here depends on the gap between those two prices above — not on the equipment.
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