Louisiana electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
14.15¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.60
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly. Louisiana last reported gas in 2025-12, so that figure is older than the electricity one.
How Louisiana compares
At 14.15¢ per kWh, Louisiana is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 10th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Louisiana household uses
Electricity a month
1,201 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 14.15¢ 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.
Averaged over twelve months across 2,180,687 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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