New Hampshire electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
27.33¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.37
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How New Hampshire compares
At 27.33¢ per kWh, New Hampshire is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 43rd cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical New Hampshire household uses
Electricity a month
643 kWh
Bill a month
$167
Households in New Hampshire use 25% less electricity than the national average and pay 12% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 27.33¢ 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.
Averaged over twelve months across 664,531 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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