Final-user natural gas price: electric power: U.S. average (USD/thousand cubic feet) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Final-user gas prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants was 3.48 USD per thousand cubic feet in July 2026, versus 3.28 in June 2026. This constitutes an increase of 6.10 percent.
Sample. The monthly series plotted above has 295 records in total. The time span covered by the series is from January 2002 to July 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants was equal on average to 4.94 USD per thousand cubic feet; it recorded a minimum of 2.09 USD per thousand cubic feet in April 2024; it reached its maximum of 18.06 USD per thousand cubic feet in February 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/thousand cubic feet |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 2.84000 |
| 2026-06-30 | 3.28000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 3.48000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | U.S. average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | USD/thousand cubic feet |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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