Georgia electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
15.84¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$3.21
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Georgia compares
At 15.84¢ per kWh, Georgia is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 22nd cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Georgia household uses
Electricity a month
1,074 kWh
Bill a month
$161
Households in Georgia use 25% more electricity than the national average and pay 8% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 15.84¢ 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.
Averaged over twelve months across 4,906,704 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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