Massachusetts (MA) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
30.49¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.95
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Massachusetts's gas works out at 10.06¢ per kWh against 30.49¢ 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 Massachusetts compares
At 30.49¢ per kWh, Massachusetts is above the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 48th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Massachusetts household uses
Electricity a month
598 kWh
Bill a month
$182
Households in Massachusetts use 31% less electricity than the national average and pay 21% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 30.49¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate is fairly balanced — 5,900 heating degree days against 700 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Massachusetts, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 3,063,535 residential accounts in Massachusetts. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Massachusetts sees around 130 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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