Mississippi (MS) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
14.54¢
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 Mississippi's gas works out at 10.07¢ per kWh against 14.54¢ 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 Mississippi compares
At 14.54¢ per kWh, Mississippi is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 12th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Mississippi household uses
Electricity a month
1,160 kWh
Bill a month
$171
Households in Mississippi use 35% more electricity than the national average and pay 14% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 14.54¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. Cooling explains most of it: Mississippi runs about 2,400 cooling degree days a year against 2,300 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Mississippi, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 1,362,130 residential accounts in Mississippi. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Mississippi sees around 40 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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