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Hawaii electricity cost: highest price, lowest usage, highest bill
Hawaii ends the argument that low usage can always offset a high price. Residential electricity there averaged 42.86¢ per kWh in 2024, the highest in the United States and 2.6 times the 16.48¢ national average, and the July 2026 snapshot reached 48.00¢. Hawaii households used the least electricity in the country, 495 kWh a month — and still paid the highest average bill, $212.12, almost 50% above the U.S. average of $142.26. Its delivered natural gas, at $48.88 per Mcf, was also the most expensive in America by a wide margin.
| Hawaii at a glance | Figure (with source period) |
|---|---|
| Average electricity price (2024) | 42.86¢ per kWh — U.S. average 16.48¢ |
| Latest monthly snapshot (July 2026, preliminary) | 48.00¢ per kWh |
| Average electricity use (2024) | 495 kWh per month — U.S. average 863 kWh |
| Average monthly electric bill (2024) | $212.12 — U.S. average $142.26 |
| Pacific Noncontiguous division (July 2026) | 40.76¢ per kWh, up 17.2% on July 2025 |
| Natural gas, residential delivered (2024) | $48.88 per Mcf (about $4.71 per therm) — U.S. average $14.50 |
| Heating oil / propane state averages | Not published by EIA for Hawaii (neither survey covers the state) |
Even Hawaii's frugal 495 kWh average produces the country's largest bill. Run your own kWh at the Hawaii average to see where your usage would land.
Open the energy cost calculatorA division of two, and the year's sharpest rise
EIA reports Hawaii together with Alaska as the Pacific Noncontiguous division, and that division's July 2026 average of 40.76¢ per kWh rose 17.2% from July 2025 — by far the largest year-over-year increase of any Census division, in a month when the national average rose 4.9%. Hawaii's own July snapshot, 48.00¢ against an annual 2024 average of 42.86¢, shows the same upward pressure at state level, with the usual caution that a single summer month is a snapshot, not a new annual rate. Island electricity systems are small, isolated grids with no interstate interconnection to import cheaper power across a border — the structural fact behind both the level of Hawaii's price and its sensitivity to the delivered fuel costs of generation. Alaska, the division's other member, averaged 24.82¢ in 2024: expensive by mainland standards, yet barely more than half of Hawaii's figure, which is why even EIA's two-state division average understates what a Hawaii household actually pays.
Usage at the floor — and a bill at the ceiling
At 495 kWh a month, Hawaii households already use less electricity than any other state's — less than California's 503 kWh, and 43% below the national average. The climate does much of that work: no winter heating load of consequence and, in many homes, trade-wind cooling in place of sustained air conditioning. That is precisely what makes the $212.12 average bill so striking. In every other high-price state on this site — California, Massachusetts, Connecticut — low usage pulls the bill back toward the national pack. In Hawaii the price is so far beyond the pack that even the country's most economical usage cannot compensate: 495 kWh multiplied at 42.86¢ simply costs more than 1,202 kWh multiplied at Louisiana's 11.73¢. For a Hawaii reader, the actionable margin is therefore almost entirely on the price side of the meter — what displaces a purchased kilowatt-hour — rather than on using still less of a quantity that is already the nation's lowest.
What the price does to charging, solar and gas
Priced from the same Table 5A figure, a 60 kWh home EV charge costs $25.72 in Hawaii against $9.89 at the U.S. average, and 1,000 miles at this site's labeled 3.0 miles-per-kWh assumption costs $142.87 — the figures in our EV charging guide, and the reason the home-charging advantage over gasoline narrows more in Hawaii than anywhere else. Rooftop solar faces the opposite arithmetic: EIA publishes no installation prices, so no payback figure appears here, but its net metering data records Hawaii among the states with the highest shares of solar-paired home batteries (18.2% of residential solar installations, second only to Michigan in the 2024 file) — a pattern consistent with households storing power priced at the country's highest retail rate. And the alternative piped fuel offers no escape: at $48.88 per Mcf, about $4.71 per therm, Hawaii's delivered residential gas cost more than three times the national average and more than double the next state, Florida at $25.37. Heating oil and propane state averages, finally, do not exist for Hawaii — it sits in neither EIA weekly survey — so those fuels carry no official benchmark on this site.
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). Last verified: October 2026 — energy prices move with seasons and markets; confirm the current rate on your own bill.
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