State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
New Hampshire Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in New Hampshire costs 27.33¢ per kWh (+13.8% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. New Hampshire's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 24.56¢/kWh, 42% above the US average. Both figures point the same way: an above-average rate and only 12% of generation from renewables. The fuel-by-fuel and sector detail is below.
- 27.33¢
- May 2026 rate
- +13.8%
- year over year
- 24.56¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- +42.0%
- vs US average
- 12%
- Renewable
- 662.9K
- Customers
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24.56¢/kWh residential, 20.16¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, New Hampshire's residential average revenue per kWh is 24.56¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 20.16¢/kWh and an industrial average of 16.88¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 12% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 42% above the US average vs national residential average
- 12% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
New Hampshire's residential electricity runs 24.56¢/kWh - 42% above the 17.30¢/kWh national average, pricier than 84% of other states, with 12% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 662.9K reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- New Hampshire's residential average rose from 23.40¢/kWh to 24.56¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +5.0%.
- New Hampshire's industrial average rose from 16.21¢/kWh to 16.88¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.1%.
- New Hampshire's commercial average rose from 19.40¢/kWh to 20.16¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +3.9%.
Where New Hampshire's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
24.56¢/kWh 16th affordability percentile More affordable than 16% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
Each bar spans 5¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more states; the dashed marker locates this state. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.
Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How New Hampshire compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare New Hampshire against the US average or a peer state.
What New Hampshire's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in New Hampshire pay 24.56¢/kWh in 2025, across 662.9K metered households, placing the state 42% above the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 20.16¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 16.88¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 5.0M MWh on roughly $1.2B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
New Hampshire prices its sectors in step: 9 of 51 residential against 7 industrial. A state this consistent is the exception rather than the rule, and it means the residential figure above is a fair proxy for how the whole grid is priced. Nuclear carries the majority of New Hampshire's in-state generation at 57.5%, though not the whole grid: natural gas supplies 28.0% and hydro a further 7.1%. It is the leading fuel in 4 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 12.0% of New Hampshire's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in New Hampshire moved from 18.38¢/kWh in 2016 to 24.56¢/kWh in 2025, a 33.6% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Alaska, Vermont, New York, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Nuclear output is close to fuel-cost-insensitive once a reactor is running, so the rate above reflects capital and maintenance recovery far more than any fuel market. That makes New Hampshire's figure unusually stable year to year and unusually sensitive to what happens at a single large plant. At this level it matters what the figure is made of: it is total revenue divided by total kilowatt-hours, so delivery, taxes and fees are inside it but never broken out. In a state as dear as New Hampshire that hides which part of the bill a household could actually act on.
+42.0%
Much more expensive vs the US residential average
16%
of states have higher rates — Among the costliest
12%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
662.9K
residential customers served
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$1.2B
Commercial Revenue
$836.3M
Residential Sales
5.0M MWh
Residential Customers
662.9K
Residential Price History
New Hampshire residential average revenue per kWh moved from 18.38¢/kWh in 2016 to 24.56¢/kWh in 2025 (33.6% over the window).
- New Hampshire residential avg
- 24.56¢/kWh 33.6% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- New Hampshire residential: 2016, 18.4¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2017, 19.2¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2018, 19.7¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2019, 20.1¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2020, 19¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2021, 19.9¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2022, 25.5¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2023, 28.2¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2024, 23.4¢
- New Hampshire residential: 2025, 24.6¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. New Hampshire full trend →
New Hampshire Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, New Hampshire households paid 24.56¢/kWh while businesses paid 20.16¢/kWh, a 21.8% residential premium, a moderate household-versus-business gap. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24.56¢/kWh | 20.16¢/kWh | 16.88¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 23.40¢/kWh | 19.40¢/kWh | 16.21¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 28.15¢/kWh | 20.40¢/kWh | 15.76¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 25.46¢/kWh | 18.69¢/kWh | 15.15¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 19.85¢/kWh | 16.13¢/kWh | 13.81¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 19.04¢/kWh | 15.41¢/kWh | 13.11¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 20.05¢/kWh | 15.93¢/kWh | 13.09¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 19.69¢/kWh | 15.81¢/kWh | 13.42¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 19.20¢/kWh | 14.81¢/kWh | 12.34¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 18.38¢/kWh | 14.43¢/kWh | 12.34¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Who generates New Hampshire's electricity
New Hampshire has 129 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 3,995 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Seabrook , a nuclear station operated by NextEra Energy Seabrook LLC , rated 1,247 MW.
The grid here is run by ISO New England Inc, the balancing authority that keeps supply and demand matched across the state.
Showing the 16 largest of 59 operable plants in New Hampshire by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seabrook | NextEra Energy Seabrook LLC | Nuclear | – | 1,247 |
| Granite Ridge | Granite Ridge Energy LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 668 |
| Newington Energy Center | Essential Power Operating Services, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 561 |
| Newington | Granite Shore Power | Petroleum Liquids | – | 400 |
| S C Moore | Great River Hydro, LLC | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 193 |
| Comerford | Great River Hydro, LLC | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 166 |
| Merrimack | Granite Shore Power | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 142 |
| Granite Reliable Power | NexteraEnergy | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 99 |
| Burgess BioPower | Berlin Station, LLC | Wood/Wood Waste Biomass | – | 68 |
| Groton Wind LLC | Avangrid Power LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 48 |
| Berlin Gorham | Great Lakes Hydro America LLC | Batteries | – | 44 |
| Antrim Wind | Antrim Wind Energy LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 29 |
| Lempster Wind LLC | Avangrid Power LLC | Onshore Wind Turbine | – | 24 |
| NE Renewable Tamworth, LLC | NE Renewable Tamworth, LLC | Wood/Wood Waste Biomass | – | 20 |
| White Lake | Granite Shore Power | Petroleum Liquids | – | 18 |
| NE Renewable Whitefield, LLC | NE Renewable Whitefield, LLC | Wood/Wood Waste Biomass | – | 17 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| NextEra Energy Seabrook LLC | 1 | 1,247 |
| Granite Ridge Energy LLC | 1 | 668 |
| Granite Shore Power | 5 | 590 |
| Essential Power Operating Services, LLC | 1 | 561 |
| Great River Hydro, LLC | 2 | 359 |
| NexteraEnergy | 1 | 99 |
| Avangrid Power LLC | 2 | 72 |
| Berlin Station, LLC | 1 | 68 |
| Central Rivers Power NH, LLC | 8 | 62 |
| Great Lakes Hydro America LLC | 1 | 44 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How New Hampshire generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 12.0% of generation.
- Nuclear57.5%
- Natural Gas28.0%
- Hydrorenewable7.1%
- Windrenewable2.5%
- Solarrenewable2.2%
- Coal1.3%
- Petroleum1.0%
- Other0.3%
- Biomassrenewable0.2%
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States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by nuclear
These grids also report nuclear as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
Using New Hampshire's numbers
With renewables still a small share of generation here, the figures above describe a mix that has further to travel than most. Watch what New Hampshire builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- New Hampshire sits 42% above the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. New Hampshire price trend
- Compare New Hampshire side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
Read with New Hampshire: why energy prices vary
Where New Hampshire's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
- 📊 EIA State Energy Profile, New Hampshire State energy database
- ⚡ EIA Electric Power Monthly The monthly and annual price series behind every rate here
- 🌿 EIA generation by source The in-state generation shares quoted above
- 📖 Our methodology Source-to-figure lineage, and further federal energy references
Utilities serving New Hampshire
The 9 utilities that reported bundled residential service in New Hampshire to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NH | Investor Owned | 279.1K | 22.65¢ |
| New Hampshire Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 72.8K | 23.83¢ |
| Unitil Energy Systems | Investor Owned | 39.7K | 23.33¢ |
| Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electri | Investor Owned | 24.7K | 22.87¢ |
| Sunrun Inc. | Behind the Meter | 3.6K | 27.76¢ |
| Tesla Inc. | Behind the Meter | 1.2K | 17.77¢ |
| Sunnova | Behind the Meter | 241 | 24.30¢ |
| EverBright, LLC | Behind the Meter | 100 | 18.97¢ |
| Palmetto Solar, LLC | Behind the Meter | 3 | 28.08¢ |
The 1 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.