Hawaii electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
52.00¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$6.83
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly. Hawaii last reported gas in 2026-04, so that figure is older than the electricity one.
How Hawaii compares
At 52.00¢ per kWh, Hawaii is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 51st cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Hawaii household uses
Electricity a month
513 kWh
Bill a month
$215
Households in Hawaii use 40% less electricity than the national average and pay 44% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 52.00¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. Cooling explains most of it: Hawaii runs about 3,600 cooling degree days a year against 0 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 451,210 residential accounts in Hawaii. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Hawaii sees around 0 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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