Washington electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
14.95¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.97
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Washington compares
At 14.95¢ per kWh, Washington is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 15th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Washington household uses
Electricity a month
935 kWh
Bill a month
$130
Households in Washington use 9% more electricity than the national average and pay 13% less than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 14.95¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,800 heating degree days against 300 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 3,424,165 residential accounts in Washington. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Washington sees around 65 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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