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Connecticut electricity cost: a near-top price meets a near-top bill
Connecticut breaks the Northeast's usual bargain. Elsewhere in the region, a very high price is softened by very low usage; Connecticut pairs a 28.75¢ per kWh average price in 2024 — fourth-highest in the United States — with usage of 695 kWh a month, low but not low enough, producing an average monthly bill of $199.66: the second-highest in the country, behind only Hawaii's $212.12 and well above the U.S. average of $142.26. The July 2026 snapshot, at 24.16¢, printed below the annual figure — a reminder that a single preliminary month can move either way, and that the annual table is the comparison that counts.
| Connecticut at a glance | Figure (with source period) |
|---|---|
| Average electricity price (2024) | 28.75¢ per kWh — U.S. average 16.48¢ |
| Latest monthly snapshot (July 2026, preliminary) | 24.16¢ per kWh |
| Average electricity use (2024) | 695 kWh per month — U.S. average 863 kWh |
| Average monthly electric bill (2024) | $199.66 — U.S. average $142.26; second-highest in the U.S. |
| New England division price (July 2026) | 28.00¢ per kWh (six-state blended) |
| Natural gas, residential delivered (2024) | $16.83 per Mcf (about $1.62 per therm) — U.S. average $14.50 |
| Heating oil / propane (week of Oct 19, 2026) | $6.154 per gallon / $4.226 per gallon — propane is the survey's second-highest state price |
Enter your own monthly kWh and price them at the Connecticut average — then run the U.S. average usage at the Connecticut price to see the full premium.
Open the energy cost calculatorWhy Connecticut's bill escapes the regional pattern
Compare the neighbours. Massachusetts pays more per unit (29.35¢) but uses less (570 kWh), landing at $167.20. New York pays 24.43¢ and uses 571 kWh, landing at $139.53. Connecticut's 695 kWh — about 22% more than Massachusetts or New York, though still 19% below the national average — is enough, at 28.75¢, to push the bill to the top of the mainland table. The usage gap is a housing and heating mix story: more detached homes and more electric resistance and heat-pump heating in the mix than in apartment-heavy New York. RECS supplies the household frame: New England homes used 89.9 MMBtu of site energy a year and spent $2,539 per household, the highest divisional average in the country, so the electric bill is only the largest single line in the region's most expensive household energy budget. EIA's method note matters here too: the 28.75¢ figure is total residential revenue divided by total kilowatt-hours, blending fixed customer charges into the per-kWh number — correct as an average, never identical to any single tariff's energy rate.
The alternatives are expensive too
On one heat basis (arithmetic on EIA's published prices and conversion factors, before equipment efficiency), Connecticut electricity at 28.75¢ costs about $84.26 per million Btu. Delivered gas at $16.83 per Mcf — the cheapest piped gas in New England, though still 16% above the U.S. average — costs about $16.23 per million Btu, or $1.62 a therm. Heating oil at $6.154 a gallon costs about $44.43 per million Btu (at 138,500 Btu per gallon), and propane at $4.226 costs about $46.21 (at 91,452 Btu per gallon) — Connecticut propane was the second-highest state price in EIA's October 19, 2026 survey, behind only Florida's $4.928. A heat pump's efficiency multiplier therefore competes with the delivered fuels but not with gas. Home EV charging reprices accordingly: $17.25 for a 60 kWh charge and $95.83 per 1,000 miles at the labeled 3.0 miles-per-kWh assumption, from this site's EV guide, against $9.89 and $54.93 nationally. EIA's Winter Fuels Outlook forecasts Northeast households to spend $879 (gas), $1,637 (electricity) and $1,687 (propane) this winter — figures a Connecticut household paying $199.66 in an average electric month will read as familiar, not extreme.
Reading the July snapshot honestly
Connecticut is the one page in this series where the July 2026 snapshot (24.16¢) sits below the 2024 annual average (28.75¢). That is not an error to smooth over: monthly Electric Power Monthly figures are preliminary, seasonally specific, and revised, and a single summer month cannot repeal an annual average built from a full year of revenue and sales. The honest reading is narrow — July 2026 printed lower than the 2024 annual figure — while the year-level ranking, fourth-highest price and second-highest bill, rests on Table 5A. The state-level starting point remains our Connecticut state guide; this page is the electricity deep-dive behind it, and our New England page covers the six-state region.
Sources: EIA — Electric Sales, Revenue & Average Price 2024, Table 5A (Form EIA-861) · EIA — Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A (July 2026) · EIA — Natural Gas Annual 2024, Table 23 (Form EIA-176) · EIA — Heating Oil and Propane Update (week of October 19, 2026) · EIA — Winter Fuels Outlook, October 2026 · EIA — Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) 2020, Table CE1.1 · EIA Btu conversion factors (138,500 Btu/gal heating oil; 91,452 Btu/gal propane; 3,412 Btu/kWh). Last verified: October 2026 — energy prices move with seasons and markets; confirm the current rate on your own bill.
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