New Hampshire (NH) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
26.60¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.09
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so New Hampshire's gas works out at 7.13¢ per kWh against 26.60¢ 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. New Hampshire last reported gas in 2026-06, so that figure is older than the electricity one.
How New Hampshire compares
At 26.60¢ per kWh, New Hampshire is above the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 44th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical New Hampshire household uses
Electricity a month
641 kWh
Bill a month
$171
Households in New Hampshire use 26% less electricity than the national average and pay 14% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 26.60¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate pulls the other way here: 7,000 heating degree days against 500 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
More on this: the average electric bill in New Hampshire, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 663,377 residential accounts in New Hampshire. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
New Hampshire sees around 155 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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