Kansas electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
15.13¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.42
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Kansas compares
At 15.13¢ per kWh, Kansas is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 18th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Kansas household uses
Electricity a month
873 kWh
Bill a month
$130
Households in Kansas use about as much electricity as the national average and pay 13% less than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 15.13¢ 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.
Averaged over twelve months across 1,360,260 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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