Wisconsin electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
19.74¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$1.14
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Wisconsin compares
At 19.74¢ per kWh, Wisconsin is above the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 35th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Wisconsin household uses
Electricity a month
664 kWh
Bill a month
$123
Households in Wisconsin use 23% less electricity than the national average and pay 17% less than average. That is a price problem rather than a consumption one — at 19.74¢ a kilowatt hour, even a modest amount of electricity adds up. The climate pulls the other way here: 7,200 heating degree days against 600 cooling ones, so how a home is heated matters more than how it is cooled.
Averaged over twelve months across 2,887,194 residential accounts in Wisconsin. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Wisconsin sees around 155 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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