Arkansas electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
14.36¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.50
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Arkansas compares
At 14.36¢ per kWh, Arkansas is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 11th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Arkansas household uses
Electricity a month
1,045 kWh
Bill a month
$138
Households in Arkansas use 21% more electricity than the national average and pay 7% less than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 14.36¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate is fairly balanced — 3,200 heating degree days against 1,900 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 1,505,935 residential accounts in Arkansas. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Arkansas sees around 60 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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