Michigan electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
22.01¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.36
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Michigan compares
At 22.01¢ per kWh, Michigan is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 38th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Michigan household uses
Electricity a month
635 kWh
Bill a month
$131
Households in Michigan use 26% less electricity than the national average and pay 13% less than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 22.01¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate pulls the other way here: 6,600 heating degree days against 700 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
Averaged over twelve months across 4,557,020 residential accounts in Michigan. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Michigan sees around 150 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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