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The average electric bill in Massachusetts

Massachusetts households paid $181.08 a month for electricity in 2025, at 30.41¢ per kilowatt-hour for 596 kWh a month. That is 23% above the national median, and ranks #5 of 51 states, most expensive first.

Monthly bill
$181.08
US median $147.18
Price
30.41¢
per kWh · US 15.39¢
Usage
596
kWh per month
Households
2,919,186
residential accounts

What each Massachusetts utility charges, most expensive first

Fitchburg Gas & Elec Light Co charges 36.24¢ per kWh and Town of Hudson - (MA) charges 13.14¢ — 2.8× apart inside one state. You do not usually get to choose between them; your address does.

#UtilityPriceTypical billvs US median
1Fitchburg Gas & Elec Light CoInvestor Owned · 3,657 homes36.24¢per kWh$164.23453 kWh/mo2.62× dearer
2Nantucket Electric CoInvestor Owned · 2,215 homes35.91¢per kWh$295.26822 kWh/mo2.59× dearer
3Massachusetts Electric CoInvestor Owned · 438,150 homes33.66¢per kWh$163.79487 kWh/mo2.43× dearer
4NSTAR Electric CompanyInvestor Owned · 306,795 homes21.49¢per kWh$101.86474 kWh/mo1.55× dearer
5Town of Reading - (MA)Municipal · 26,573 homes19.95¢per kWh$164.67826 kWh/mo1.44× dearer
6City of Taunton - (MA)Municipal · 34,952 homes18.81¢per kWh$130.41693 kWh/mo1.36× dearer
7City of Westfield - (MA)Municipal · 16,386 homes18.46¢per kWh$125.17678 kWh/mo1.33× dearer
8City of Norwood - (MA)Municipal · 13,617 homes17.61¢per kWh$98.36558 kWh/mo1.27× dearer
9City of Peabody - (MA)Municipal · 22,697 homes16.88¢per kWh$120.87716 kWh/mo1.22× dearer
10Town of DanversMunicipal · 11,677 homes16.55¢per kWh$115.98701 kWh/mo1.20× dearer
11City of Holyoke - (MA)Municipal · 15,155 homes16.36¢per kWh$101.23619 kWh/mo1.18× dearer
12City of Chicopee - (MA)Municipal · 23,231 homes16.21¢per kWh$117.66726 kWh/mo1.17× dearer
13Town of Braintree - (MA)Municipal · 14,090 homes16.17¢per kWh$116.58721 kWh/mo1.17× dearer
14Town of Wellesley - (MA)Municipal · 9,338 homes16.04¢per kWh$162.431,013 kWh/mo1.16× dearer
15Town of North Attleborough - (MA)Municipal · 12,650 homes15.87¢per kWh$123.99781 kWh/mo1.15× dearer
16Town of Middleborough - (MA)Municipal · 14,978 homes15.59¢per kWh$124.00795 kWh/mo1.13× dearer
17Town of Shrewsbury - (MA)Municipal · 15,206 homes15.53¢per kWh$119.61770 kWh/mo1.12× dearer
18Town of Mansfield - (MA)Municipal · 9,406 homes15.04¢per kWh$110.90737 kWh/mo1.09× dearer
19Town of Littleton - (MA)Municipal · 6,762 homes14.17¢per kWh$126.69894 kWh/mo1.02× dearer
20Town of Hudson - (MA)Municipal · 11,582 homes13.14¢per kWh$102.38779 kWh/mo1.05× cheaper

Price is residential revenue divided by residential kilowatt-hours sold, for bundled service only. Typical bill is that utility’s residential revenue spread over its residential accounts and twelve months, not a quoted tariff. The median priced utility charges 13.84¢ per kWh.

Price is only half of it

The median Massachusetts utility also leaves customers without power for 1.2 hours a year. A cheap utility that is out for two days a year is not obviously a bargain. See Massachusetts utilities ranked by outage time, or the utilities that charge the most and deliver the least.

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