Vermont electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
24.89¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.96
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Vermont compares
At 24.89¢ per kWh, Vermont is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 41st cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Vermont household uses
Electricity a month
597 kWh
Bill a month
$140
Households in Vermont use 31% less electricity than the national average and pay 6% less than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 24.89¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate pulls the other way here: 7,300 heating degree days against 500 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
Averaged over twelve months across 313,825 residential accounts in Vermont. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Vermont sees around 160 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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