Ohio electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
19.52¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.20
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Ohio compares
At 19.52¢ per kWh, Ohio is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 34th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Ohio household uses
Electricity a month
878 kWh
Bill a month
$157
Households in Ohio use about as much electricity as the national average and pay 5% more than average. Both push the same way, which is the expensive combination: heavy use meeting a rate of 19.52¢. The climate is fairly balanced — 5,700 heating degree days against 900 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 5,122,275 residential accounts in Ohio. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Ohio sees around 125 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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