Maine (ME) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
32.41¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$3.94
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Maine's gas works out at 13.44¢ per kWh against 32.41¢ 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.
How Maine compares
At 32.41¢ per kWh, Maine is above the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 49th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Maine household uses
Electricity a month
532 kWh
Bill a month
$156
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 32.41¢ 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.
More on this: the average electric bill in Maine, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 762,934 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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