Vermont (VT) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
23.75¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$3.16
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Vermont's gas works out at 10.77¢ per kWh against 23.75¢ 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.
How Vermont compares
At 23.75¢ per kWh, Vermont is above the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 40th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Vermont household uses
Electricity a month
591 kWh
Bill a month
$141
Households in Vermont use 31% less electricity than the national average and pay 7% less than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 23.75¢ 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.
More on this: the average electric bill in Vermont, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 314,497 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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