Missouri (MO) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
16.09¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$3.09
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Missouri's gas works out at 10.53¢ per kWh against 16.09¢ 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 Missouri compares
At 16.09¢ per kWh, Missouri is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 26th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Missouri household uses
Electricity a month
1,041 kWh
Bill a month
$145
Households in Missouri use 21% more electricity than the national average and end up with a bill close to it. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 16.09¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,800 heating degree days against 1,500 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Missouri, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 2,914,018 residential accounts in Missouri. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Missouri sees around 105 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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