Louisiana (LA) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
12.72¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.43
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Louisiana's gas works out at 8.29¢ per kWh against 12.72¢ 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. Louisiana last reported gas in 2026-04, so that figure is older than the electricity one.
How Louisiana compares
At 12.72¢ per kWh, Louisiana is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 1st cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Louisiana household uses
Electricity a month
1,200 kWh
Bill a month
$156
Households in Louisiana use 39% more electricity than the national average and end up with a bill close to it. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 12.72¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. Cooling explains most of it: Louisiana runs about 2,900 cooling degree days a year against 1,600 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Louisiana, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 2,182,469 residential accounts in Louisiana. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Louisiana sees around 25 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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