Delaware electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
19.38¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.17
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Delaware compares
At 19.38¢ per kWh, Delaware is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 33rd cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Delaware household uses
Electricity a month
942 kWh
Bill a month
$165
Households in Delaware use 9% more electricity than the national average and pay 10% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 19.38¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,600 heating degree days against 1,200 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 481,756 residential accounts in Delaware. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Delaware sees around 95 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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