Arizona electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
15.23¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.16
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Arizona compares
At 15.23¢ per kWh, Arizona is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 20th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Arizona household uses
Electricity a month
1,042 kWh
Bill a month
$161
Households in Arizona use 21% more electricity than the national average and pay 8% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 15.23¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. Cooling explains most of it: Arizona runs about 2,800 cooling degree days a year against 1,800 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 3,204,322 residential accounts in Arizona. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Arizona sees around 25 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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