Vermont electricity rates, bills and utilities

Three prices, three periods

How much a kilowatt-hour costs in Vermont depends on which stretch of time you ask about. All three figures below are average revenue per kWh: what residential customers paid their utility, customer charges and adjustments included, divided by the electricity they used. In Vermont every home buys full service from its utility, so each figure covers supply and delivery together.

The 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026 are the steadiest measure: 23.90¢ per kWh, 32.5% above the US average and the 11th highest among the 50 states and DC. The single month of August 2026 came in at 23.84¢ per kWh, +7.9% against August 2025 (22.10¢ per kWh¹); monthly figures for 2026 are preliminary. The final calendar-year average for 2025 was 22.79¢ per kWh, 10th highest³ in the country.

Above the US average, below its neighbors

Vermont's price looks high against the nation and low against its region. Over the last 12 months the cheapest of its 3 neighboring states, New Hampshire, averaged 26.95¢ per kWh, and Massachusetts 30.39¢ per kWh, both above Vermont's 23.90¢ per kWh. Across the rest of New England, homes paid 27.42¢ per kWh in Connecticut, 29.44¢ per kWh in Rhode Island and 29.60¢ per kWh¹ in Maine over the same 12 months.

Bills follow the same order. Vermont's 2025 average bill of $134.78 compares with $156.94 in New Hampshire, $154.75 in New York and $181.08² in Massachusetts.

Why the bill stays small

The average Vermont home used 592 kWh of electricity a month in 2025, the 7th lowest among the states, against 874 kWh nationally. Multiply a high price by a small amount and the result is a bill that ranked 19th lowest at $134.78. It still rose 7.3%² from $125.66 in 2024, as use per home edged up from 574 kWh⁴. Over the last 12 months the computed bill was $141.04, against $157.84¹ for the US.

Cold winters do not translate into large electricity bills here. Vermont averaged 7,383 heating degree days a year over 2016 to 2025, the 6th highest of the states with data, but only 11.0% of its homes heat mainly with electricity, the lowest share in the Census Bureau's 2025 survey (US: 41.8%⁶). Summers are mild, with 366 cooling degree days, 6th lowest⁵. EIA's 2020 household survey put air conditioning at 7% of Vermont household electricity use and space heating at 6%; the average home used 6,741 kWh a year, the 2nd lowest⁷ in the country. Those 2020 figures come from a pandemic year; new state figures are due in 2027.

Winter still sets the peak. Over the last 12 months use per home was highest at 790 kWh in January 2026 and lowest at 471 kWh in September 2025, 1.7 times as much. The average price was lowest in December 2025 (23.12¢ per kWh) and highest in May 2026 (24.89¢ per kWh): fixed monthly charges spread over more kWh in winter pull the average per kWh down. In August 2026 the average bill was $142.06 for 596 kWh, against $209.23 for 1,152 kWh¹ nationally.

471Sep

485Oct

577Nov

745Dec

790Jan

705Feb

619Mar

489Apr

482May

510Jun

617Jul

596Aug

Source: EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Residential kWh sold per customer in each month. The table adds that month's average residential price. Monthly EIA data through August 2026 (released October 23, 2026); months since January 2026 are preliminary.

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Month	kWh per customer	Residential ¢/kWh
September 2025	471	23.79¢
October 2025	485	24.65¢
November 2025	577	24.05¢
December 2025	745	23.12¢
January 2026	790	23.29¢
February 2026	705	23.27¢
March 2026	619	24.11¢
April 2026	489	24.57¢
May 2026	482	24.89¢
June 2026	510	24.44¢
July 2026	617	23.75¢
August 2026	596	23.84¢

Households' own reports agree. The median monthly bill Vermont households reported in the 2025 American Community Survey was about $140 (US: $169). In the same survey, 29.9% said they paid under $100, and 18.4% reported $250 or more (±1.2 percentage points), +4.6 percentage points⁸ on the 2024 survey. These are survey estimates of a recalled bill, and the change between the two years has not been tested for significance.

Green Mountain Power, a cooperative and Burlington Electric

The Vermont Public Utility Commission states that Vermont has 17 electric distribution utilities and that each has an exclusive service territory. There is no retail choice: in 2025 EIA counted 0 competitive suppliers with residential customers and 0.0%⁹ of homes buying from one, so the utility that delivers your power also supplies it.

One company dominates. Green Mountain Power, Vermont's investor-owned utility, has 80.8% of the state's residential customers on its wires and reports service in 13¹⁰ of the 14 counties. Vermont Electric Cooperative, a customer-owned cooperative, has 12.8%, and City of Burlington Electric, the city-owned utility, 6.4%⁹. Town and village departments serve the remainder.

Among the 3 utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, average prices in 2025 ran from 19.80¢ per kWh at City of Burlington Electric to 24.33¢ per kWh at Vermont Electric Cooperative, a spread of 4.53¢ per kWh. Green Mountain Power's customers paid 23.29¢ per kWh, 2.2% above the Vermont average and 31.0% above the national average for investor-owned utilities. Its average bill was $139.90 for 601 kWh a month, a change of +8.1%⁹ on 2024. The chart below compares the three utilities' 2025 bills.

City of Burlington Electric (VT)$84.81

Vermont Electric Cooperative (VT)$138.02

Green Mountain Power (VT)$139.90

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	average monthly residential bill
City of Burlington Electric (VT)	$84.81
Vermont Electric Cooperative (VT)	$138.02
Green Mountain Power (VT)	$139.90

The monthly data show Green Mountain Power's price still rising. Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) its customers paid 24.44¢ per kWh, and in August 2026¹ alone 24.67¢ per kWh, +8.3%¹¹ on a year earlier (preliminary).

Territories overlap at the county level: in 11 of the 14 counties more than one utility reports service, and Lamoille County has 7¹⁰. EIA records service by county, not by street, so each utility's own map decides who serves an address.

Green Mountain Power only (of these)Vermont Electric Cooperative only (of these)City of Burlington Electric only (of these)Two or more of themOther utilities only

Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. Counties where each utility reports serving customers (EIA-861 service territory, 2025). A utility often serves only part of a county, and several can share one: the map shows where each one is present, not street-level boundaries. Point at a county for every utility listed there.

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County	Utilities reporting service
Addison County	Green Mountain Power, Vermont Electric Cooperative
Bennington County	Green Mountain Power
Caledonia County	Green Mountain Power, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Washington Electric Cooperative, The Town of Lyndon Electric Dept, Town of Hardwick
Chittenden County	Green Mountain Power, Vermont Electric Cooperative, City of Burlington Electric
Essex County	Green Mountain Power, Vermont Electric Cooperative, The Town of Lyndon Electric Dept
Franklin County	Green Mountain Power, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Village of Swanton, Village of Enosburg Falls
Grand Isle County	Vermont Electric Cooperative
Lamoille County	Green Mountain Power, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Town of Hardwick, Village of Morrisville, Town of Stowe, Village of Hyde Park, Village of Johnson
Orange County	Green Mountain Power, Washington Electric Cooperative
Orleans County	Green Mountain Power, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Washington Electric Cooperative, The Town of Lyndon Electric Dept, Town of Hardwick, Barton Village, Village of Orleans
Rutland County	Green Mountain Power
Washington County	Green Mountain Power, Washington Electric Cooperative, Town of Hardwick, Village of Northfield
Windham County	Green Mountain Power, Village of Jacksonville
Windsor County	Green Mountain Power, Village of Ludlow

Nearly all-renewable plants, mostly imported power

Renewable sources produced 99.8% of the electricity generated in Vermont in 2025, the highest share of any state (US: 24.1%). The largest source, hydropower, supplied 49.7%, the 2nd highest hydropower share in the country, ahead of other sources at 20.8%, a group that covers biomass and other fuels, and wind at 18.9%. Solar rose from 2.4% in 2015 to 10.3%. Natural gas (0.1%), coal (0.0%) and nuclear power (0.0%¹³) played almost no part.

That mix describes Vermont's power plants, not the electricity Vermont homes use. The state generated 2.0 terawatt-hours in 2025, the equivalent of only 37% of its retail sales, the 2nd lowest ratio among the states (US: 109%¹³). The rest is bought over the regional grid run by ISO New England⁹, so a "green" generation share is not a price, and it does not show what a Vermont household's kilowatt-hours were made from.

Natural gasCoalNuclearHydroWindSolarPetroleumOther

Vermont, 2025

Vermont, 2015

United States, 2025

Source: EIA, Net generation by state by type of producer by energy source. Share of net generation by all power plants located in the state (utilities and independent producers), by energy source. Electricity crosses state lines, so this is what the state produces, not exactly what its customers consume. Pumped storage is a net user of power and is left out.

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	Natural gas	Coal	Nuclear	Hydro	Wind	Solar	Petroleum	Other
Vermont, 2025	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	49.7%	18.9%	10.3%	0.2%	20.8%
Vermont, 2015	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	57.5%	16.4%	2.4%	0.2%	23.4%
United States, 2025	40.9%	16.6%	17.7%	5.5%	10.4%	6.8%	0.4%	1.7%

A slower climb than the nation

Over the long run Vermont's price rose less than most. The residential average was 12.67¢ per kWh in 2001, well above the US figure of 8.58¢ per kWh¹⁴, and 22.79¢ per kWh in 2025: an increase of 79.9%, the 10th lowest among the states, while the US average rose 100.8%. Since 2020, when Vermont homes paid 19.54¢ per kWh, the rise was 16.6%, against 31.0% nationally. The annual average rose in 21 of the years since 2002 and last fell in 2021³.

VermontUnited States

Source: EIA, Historical state data, annual sales, revenue and customers; EIA, Historical state data, monthly sales and revenue 1990-2009. Average revenue per kWh (all charges, nominal dollars), each calendar year: 2010 onward EIA-861 final annual data, 2001–2009 the sum of the monthly survey.

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Period	Vermont (¢/kWh)	United States (¢/kWh)
2001	12.67¢	8.58¢
2002	12.78¢	8.44¢
2003	12.82¢	8.72¢
2004	12.94¢	8.95¢
2005	12.96¢	9.45¢
2006	13.39¢	10.40¢
2007	14.15¢	10.65¢
2008	14.48¢	11.26¢
2009	14.90¢	11.51¢
2010	15.57¢	11.54¢
2011	16.26¢	11.72¢
2012	17.01¢	11.88¢
2013	17.14¢	12.13¢
2014	17.47¢	12.52¢
2015	17.09¢	12.65¢
2016	17.37¢	12.55¢
2017	17.68¢	12.89¢
2018	18.02¢	12.87¢
2019	17.71¢	13.01¢
2020	19.54¢	13.15¢
2021	19.26¢	13.66¢
2022	19.93¢	15.04¢
2023	20.82¢	16.00¢
2024	21.90¢	16.48¢
2025	22.79¢	17.23¢

The most recent figures are steeper. From 2024 to 2025 the annual average rose 4.1%, close to the US rise of 4.6%³. The 12 months to August 2026 ran 6.0% above the 12 before, and for January to August 2026 the average was 23.93¢ per kWh, +7.3% on the same months of 2025. The August 2026 increase of 7.9% on a year earlier was the 14th highest among the states; the US rose 3.4%¹ (all 2026 months preliminary).

Small businesses, large industrial accounts

Commercial customers paid 20.78¢ per kWh over the last 12 months, 49.8% above the US average, and industrial customers 12.77¢ per kWh, 43.3% above the US average¹. The accounts themselves are unusual. The average commercial customer used 2,579 kWh a month in 2025, the lowest of any state (US: 6,406 kWh), so the average commercial bill was only $510.26, 4th lowest. Industrial accounts are large: their average bill of $56,694.74 a month was the 5th highest² in the country.

Outages, meters, solar and help paying

Vermont customers averaged 263 minutes without power in 2025 including major storms, 24th highest among the states, and 1.70 interruptions each. Excluding major event days the total was 185 minutes, the 8th highest¹⁵, so everyday outages weigh more here than the storm total suggests. How that compares nationally is in the power outages ranking.

Advanced meters made up 79.8% of residential meters in 2025, 14th lowest among the states, though 97.0% at Green Mountain Power. Time-varying rates covered 3.0% of residential customers; Green Mountain Power reports time-of-use and critical peak pricing programs. Rooftop solar is close to the national rate: 9,399 net-metered residential systems, 29.9 per 1,000 residential customers against 38.1¹⁶ for the US.

Vermont received $23.1 million from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for fiscal 2026, $80.93 per occupied home, the highest amount among the states. The first fiscal 2027 release was $20.3 million¹⁷. The help paying your electric bill guide explains LIHEAP and utility assistance programs.