Georgia (GA) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
16.27¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$4.17
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Georgia's gas works out at 14.24¢ per kWh against 16.27¢ 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 Georgia compares
At 16.27¢ per kWh, Georgia is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 27th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Georgia household uses
Electricity a month
1,069 kWh
Bill a month
$162
Households in Georgia use 24% more electricity than the national average and pay 7% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 16.27¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. Cooling explains most of it: Georgia runs about 2,000 cooling degree days a year against 2,500 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Georgia, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 4,920,057 residential accounts in Georgia. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Georgia sees around 45 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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