Ohio (OH) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
19.45¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.20
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Ohio's gas works out at 7.51¢ per kWh against 19.45¢ 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. Ohio last reported gas in 2026-05, so that figure is older than the electricity one.
How Ohio compares
At 19.45¢ per kWh, Ohio is above the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 36th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Ohio household uses
Electricity a month
866 kWh
Bill a month
$158
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 19.45¢. The climate is fairly balanced — 5,700 heating degree days against 900 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Ohio, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 5,129,666 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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