District of Columbia electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
25.40¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.12
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How District of Columbia compares
At 25.40¢ per kWh, District of Columbia is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 42nd cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical District of Columbia household uses
Electricity a month
637 kWh
Bill a month
$152
Households in District of Columbia use 26% less electricity than the national average and end up with a bill close to it. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 25.40¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,100 heating degree days against 1,500 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 326,670 residential accounts in District of Columbia. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
District of Columbia sees around 80 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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