Texas electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
16.44¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.94
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Texas compares
At 16.44¢ per kWh, Texas is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 27th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Texas household uses
Electricity a month
1,094 kWh
Bill a month
$173
Households in Texas use 27% more electricity than the national average and pay 16% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 16.44¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. Cooling explains most of it: Texas runs about 2,900 cooling degree days a year against 1,900 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 12,903,067 residential accounts in Texas. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Texas sees around 20 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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