Pennsylvania electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
21.55¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.85
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Pennsylvania compares
At 21.55¢ per kWh, Pennsylvania is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 36th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Pennsylvania household uses
Electricity a month
846 kWh
Bill a month
$172
Households in Pennsylvania use about as much electricity as the national average and pay 15% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 21.55¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. 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 5,566,571 residential accounts in Pennsylvania. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Pennsylvania sees around 120 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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