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, compared to 3.28 in June. This constitutes a gain of 6.10 percent.
Sample. This monthly time series has 295 records in total. The series covers the time span going from January 2002 to July 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: the average price of natural gas delivered to electric power plants had an average value of 4.94 USD per thousand cubic feet; it hit a trough of 2.09 USD per thousand cubic feet in April 2024; it hit a 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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