Connecticut electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
27.37¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.25
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Connecticut compares
At 27.37¢ per kWh, Connecticut is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 44th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Connecticut household uses
Electricity a month
710 kWh
Bill a month
$203
Households in Connecticut use 18% less electricity than the national average and pay 36% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 27.37¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate is fairly balanced — 5,800 heating degree days against 700 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 1,611,753 residential accounts in Connecticut. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Connecticut sees around 130 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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