Maine electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
28.63¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.03
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Maine compares
At 28.63¢ per kWh, Maine is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 46th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Maine household uses
Electricity a month
537 kWh
Bill a month
$155
Households in Maine use 38% less electricity than the national average and end up with a bill close to it. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 28.63¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate pulls the other way here: 7,500 heating degree days against 400 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
Averaged over twelve months across 739,364 residential accounts in Maine. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Maine sees around 165 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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