Maryland electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
21.77¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.83
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Maryland compares
At 21.77¢ per kWh, Maryland is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 37th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Maryland household uses
Electricity a month
954 kWh
Bill a month
$206
Households in Maryland use 11% more electricity than the national average and pay 38% more than average. Both push the same way, which is the expensive combination: heavy use meeting a rate of 21.77¢. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,600 heating degree days against 1,300 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 2,483,008 residential accounts in Maryland. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Maryland sees around 95 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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