Affordable
America’s abundance of natural gas resources and extensive energy infrastructure can satisfy current and future domestic energy demand while keeping prices affordable and stable for decades into the future.
Affordable Natural Gas Helps Families and Businesses
Whether you are heating your home, cooking a meal or drying your clothes, using natural gas helps save you money.
America has an abundance of natural gas resources. Together with the nation’s extensive infrastructure, natural gas can satisfy current and future domestic energy demand while keeping prices affordable and stable for decades into the future.
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By the Numbers
$99 Billion
The low cost of natural gas has saved families a total of $99 billion over 10 years.
$1,030
Households that use natural gas for heating, cooking and clothes drying save an average of $1,030 per year compared to homes using electricity for those applications.
$655 Billion
Commercial and industrial customers have saved more than $655 billion over the last decade by using natural gas.
Energy Affordability in Context: Rates, Regulation, and the Drivers Impacting Costs
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Building for Efficiency
AGA analysis addresses the critical intersection between environmental sustainability and economic efficiency in household energy use, allowing for informed decisions by consumers, policymakers and other stakeholders to enhance energy efficiency while maintaining multiple options for households to reduce their carbon impact and control living costs.
Residential Energy Cost Analysis by State
How a Typical Household Natural Gas Utility Bill Is Split
A natural gas bill includes more than just the cost of the natural gas itself. The amount of natural gas consumers use represents just one portion of what is paid each month. Go deeper to see how many cents of every dollar paid by customers are attributable to commodity costs, delivery charges, taxes, policy riders, and surcharges, and utility returns.
Get Help with Your Natural Gas Bill
The federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps families who need assistance with their energy bills through state grants. Learn more about the program and AGA’s efforts to keep it funded.
Upcoming Events
Winter Heating Outlook – Members Only
Join the American Gas Association (AGA) for the Annual Winter Heating Outlook, a discussion on the natural gas market as the U.S. moves into the 2026-2027 winter heating season. AGA’s Energy Markets, Analysis, and Standards team will review natural gas market fundamentals, data on gas utility planning and preparedness, AGA’s winter fuel costs outlook, and how these elements can impact customers’ bills and emissions.
Energy Affordability in Context – AGA Members Only
Join AGA for a webinar, Energy Affordability in Context. The webinar will discuss the expansion of AGA resources designed to bring greater context to energy affordability conversations. Speakers will cover a white paper, utility bill analysis, state fact sheets, and additional resources to explore how a range of factors shape customer bills and costs.
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