Arkansas (AR) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
14.33¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.92
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Arkansas's gas works out at 9.96¢ per kWh against 14.33¢ for electricity.
That compares the energy you buy, not the heat you get. A furnace throws away a fifth of every therm up the flue, while a heat pump delivers two to three times the heat in a kilowatt hour — so the cheaper unit here is not automatically the cheaper way to heat a house.
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-07. Updated monthly.
How Arkansas compares
At 14.33¢ per kWh, Arkansas is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 9th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Arkansas household uses
Electricity a month
1,048 kWh
Bill a month
$141
Households in Arkansas use 22% 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 14.33¢ 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.
More on this: the average electric bill in Arkansas, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 1,510,599 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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