Kansas (KS) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
15.27¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.42
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Kansas's gas works out at 8.27¢ per kWh against 15.27¢ 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. Kansas last reported gas in 2026-05, so that figure is older than the electricity one.
How Kansas compares
At 15.27¢ per kWh, Kansas is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 17th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Kansas household uses
Electricity a month
875 kWh
Bill a month
$132
Households in Kansas use about as much electricity as the national average and pay 12% less than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 15.27¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,800 heating degree days against 1,500 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Kansas, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 1,360,505 residential accounts in Kansas. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Kansas sees around 110 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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