Rhode Island electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
29.46¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.55
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Rhode Island compares
At 29.46¢ per kWh, Rhode Island is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 48th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Rhode Island household uses
Electricity a month
572 kWh
Bill a month
$165
Households in Rhode Island use 34% less electricity than the national average and pay 10% more than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 29.46¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate is fairly balanced — 5,600 heating degree days against 700 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 471,353 residential accounts in Rhode Island. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Rhode Island 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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