Massachusetts electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
28.82¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$3.03
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Massachusetts compares
At 28.82¢ per kWh, Massachusetts is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 47th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Massachusetts household uses
Electricity a month
602 kWh
Bill a month
$183
Households in Massachusetts use 30% less electricity than the national average and pay 23% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 28.82¢ 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.
Averaged over twelve months across 2,867,016 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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