New Hampshire Electricity

What New Hampshire's Electricity Data Tells Us

Residential customers in New Hampshire pay 23.40¢/kWh in 2024, spread across 652.6K metered households, placing the state 42% above the national residential average of 16.48¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 19.40¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 16.21¢/kWh, reflecting the cost differentials that come from voltage level, load factor, and contract length across EIA Form-861 survey respondents. Annual residential sales total 4.8M MWh on roughly $1134.5M in utility revenue, a useful yardstick for sizing local demand against the grid mix that serves it.

The generation mix is led by nuclear at 58.0% of in-state production, with natural gas providing 26.5% and hydro supplying 8.5%. Renewable fuels, solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass, collectively account for 13.6% of New Hampshire's electricity output, a figure that matters because each renewable megawatt-hour displaces fuel costs that otherwise flow through to retail bills. Expansion headroom remains: cost curves for wind and solar have fallen faster than fossil alternatives for most of the last decade.

Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in New Hampshire moved from 18.38¢/kWh in 2016 to 23.40¢/kWh in 2024, a 27.3% shift over that window. Comparable-priced neighbors include Maine, New York, Alaska, which gives a peer set for sanity-checking local quotes. For anyone negotiating a supplier contract, weighing an energy-efficiency upgrade, or modeling a household budget, the combination of current rate, multi-year trend, and generation mix offers a sturdier footing than any single data point on its own.