North Dakota (ND) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
13.41¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.67
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so North Dakota's gas works out at 9.11¢ per kWh against 13.41¢ 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 North Dakota compares
At 13.41¢ per kWh, North Dakota is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 4th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical North Dakota household uses
Electricity a month
1,075 kWh
Bill a month
$132
Households in North Dakota use 25% more electricity than the national average and pay 12% less than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 13.41¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate pulls the other way here: 8,700 heating degree days against 600 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
More on this: the average electric bill in North Dakota, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 402,166 residential accounts in North Dakota. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
North Dakota sees around 180 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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