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Electricity here is priced about nine percent below the national average, yet the bill lands about twenty percent above it, because the typical Alabama household burns roughly a third more kilowatt-hours than the typical American one.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/alabama/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Alabama", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_alabama_1", "text": "Alabama is a vertically integrated regulated state. One company generates the power, owns the wires and sells you the finished product, with prices set in advance by a regulator rather than by a market you participate in. That structure removes the retail marketing layer that inflates prices in shopping states, and it lets the utility finance generation at regulated-utility borrowing costs, which are low. The generation mix helps. Alabama leans on a diversified fleet of nuclear, natural gas and hydroelectric capacity, with coal a declining share.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/alabama/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Alabama", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_alabama_2", "text": "Consumption, not price, is what makes the Alabama bill large, and four things drive it. The first is the cooling season. Alabama summers are long and, more importantly, humid. Humidity is the underappreciated half of an air conditioning bill: a large share of the work your system does in July is not lowering the temperature but condensing water out of the air, and that latent load is invisible on a thermostat. A dry-climate home at the same outdoor temperature runs a much smaller compressor load.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/alabama/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Alabama", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "PART_OF", "target": "e_grp_regulated", "targetId": "e_grp_regulated", "targetName": "Regulated electricity states", "confidence": "declared" }, { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetId": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetName": "Electricity pricing", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_alaska", "@type": "Place", "name": "Alaska", "description": "Alaska averages $163.17 a month at 28.23 cents per kWh — the third-highest price in the country applied to barely two-thirds of national household usage.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_alaska_0", "text": "The average residential electricity bill in Alaska is $163.17 a month : about 578 kWh at 28.23 cents per kWh as of May 2026. The national comparison is 863 kWh at 18.44 cents for $159.14. So Alaskans pay roughly 53 percent more per unit than the country as a whole, use roughly a third less of it, and end up with a bill about three percent above the national figure. Two extreme numbers cancelling each other out into an unremarkable total is the single most important thing to understand about electricity in this state.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/alaska/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Alaska", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_alaska_1", "text": "Three structural facts set the price, and none of them can be legislated away. Isolation. Alaska has no interconnection to the Lower 48 or to the Canadian grid. There is no importing cheap surplus power on a mild night and no exporting it on a windy one. Every system must build enough generation to cover its own peak plus reserves, and pay for that capacity whether or not it runs. In the rest of the country, interconnection is what makes a small utility's costs tolerable. Alaska does not have that option. Density.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/alaska/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Alaska", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_alaska_2", "text": "It is counterintuitive that the coldest state in the union uses well under the national average of electricity, but the explanation is simple: in Alaska, electricity is a lighting-and-appliance fuel, not a heating fuel. Space heating — by far the largest energy demand in any northern home — is dominated by heating oil, natural gas where a distribution system exists, and to a lesser degree wood and propane. 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Nationally the figures are 863 kWh at 18.44 cents for $159.14. Arizona's price is roughly 17 percent below the national average; its consumption is roughly 25 percent above it; and the bill lands within about three percent of the national figure. On an annual view, Arizona looks unremarkable. The annual view is close to useless here. No state in the country has a wider gap between its average month and its worst month.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/arizona/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Arizona", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_arizona_1", "text": "Arizona benefits from a generation fleet that is unusually well matched to its own demand curve. The state hosts the largest nuclear generating station in the United States, west of Phoenix, and nuclear output is essentially immune to fuel price movement once the plant is built and operating. That is a large block of stable, low-marginal-cost energy underpinning the whole state's supply.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/arizona/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Arizona", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_arizona_2", "text": "Arizona's consumption story is almost entirely about air conditioning, but the details are less obvious than the headline. The cooling season in the low desert is not three months; it is closer to seven or eight, running from spring into late autumn, with overnight temperatures in high summer that in Phoenix frequently fail to drop far enough for a house to shed the heat it absorbed during the day. That is the crucial point about desert cooling: in most climates a house recovers overnight and the system rests.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/arizona/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Arizona", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "PART_OF", "target": "e_grp_regulated", "targetId": "e_grp_regulated", "targetName": "Regulated electricity states", "confidence": "declared" }, { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetId": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetName": "Electricity pricing", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_arkansas", "@type": "Place", "name": "Arkansas", "description": "Arkansas averages $150.49 a month at 14.36 cents per kWh — one of the cheaper rates in the country, on usage about a fifth above the national average.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_arkansas_0", "text": "The average residential electricity bill in Arkansas is $150.49 a month : roughly 1,048 kWh at 14.36 cents per kWh as of May 2026. The national comparison is 863 kWh at 18.44 cents for $159.14. Arkansas is therefore about 22 percent cheaper per unit than the country as a whole, uses about 21 percent more of it, and comes out around five percent below the national bill. That combination is less common than it sounds.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/arkansas/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Arkansas", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_arkansas_1", "text": "The rate here is among the lowest in the country, and it rests on a few structural advantages that have accumulated over decades. The generation fleet is the main one. Arkansas draws on nuclear capacity, a substantial fleet of coal and natural gas plants, and hydroelectric capacity on the state's dammed river systems.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/arkansas/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Arkansas", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_arkansas_2", "text": "Arkansas homes consume about a fifth more than the national norm, and the reasons stack. Two demanding seasons instead of one. Summers here are hot and humid, and humidity is the expensive part — a large share of the cooling system's work is condensing moisture rather than lowering temperature, which is why a 95-degree day in Arkansas costs more to cool through than a 95-degree day in Arizona. Winters, meanwhile, are cold enough to require real heating for several months. 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Utility equipment has been implicated in catastrophic fires, and the response — vegetation management at scale, equipment inspection and replacement, targeted undergrounding of distribution lines, sensor and monitoring deployment, public safety power shutoff programmes, insurance and liability provisions — is an enormous ongoing capital and operating programme, recovered from ratepayers.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/california/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in California", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_california_2", "text": "503 kWh a month is among the lowest household consumption figures in the United States, and it has four causes. Climate, on the coast. A large share of California's population lives within reach of marine air, where summer afternoons are moderate and nights are cool. 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The national comparison is 863 kWh at 18.44 cents for $159.14. So Colorado's rate sits about 12 percent below the national average, its consumption about 22 percent below, and the two compound into a bill roughly 32 percent below the national figure — one of the lowest in the country. The rate is doing only part of that work. The larger factor is that a Colorado household simply does not ask its electric meter to do very much.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/colorado/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Colorado", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_colorado_1", "text": "Colorado's rate sits modestly below the national average, held there by resource advantages and pushed up by a substantial transition programme. Wind. The eastern plains are among the better onshore wind resources in the country, and Colorado's utilities have built heavily there. Wind has no fuel cost, so once the capital is financed the energy is cheap and, importantly, immune to gas price shocks. Colorado also sits close to gas production, which historically kept delivered fuel costs low for the thermal fleet. The transition, and its cost.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/colorado/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Colorado", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_colorado_2", "text": "674 kWh a month is well below the national norm, and the explanation is largely about what does not happen here. Heating is gas, not electric. Natural gas service is close to universal along the Front Range, where most of the state's population lives, and gas furnaces dominate. The largest energy load in a Colorado home therefore appears on the gas bill, not the electric one. 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Set that against the national picture: 18.44 cents per kWh, 863 kWh, and $159.14 a month. Connecticut pays roughly 48 percent more for each unit of electricity and uses about 19 percent less of it, and the two effects do not cancel. The bill lands about 20 percent above the national figure.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/connecticut/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Connecticut", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_connecticut_1", "text": "Your bill splits into two halves that behave differently. Supply is the cost of the electricity itself. Delivery is what you pay the wires company to move it to your meter, plus every policy cost the state recovers through the electric bill. You can change who provides the first, never the second, and in Connecticut the second half has been growing. The supply versus delivery guide shows how the two appear on a statement. On the supply side, Connecticut is captive to New England's wholesale market, and that market has a structural problem.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/connecticut/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Connecticut", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_connecticut_2", "text": "Connecticut's consumption is well below the national average, and the reason is almost entirely about what heats the house. A large share of Connecticut homes burn fuel oil, and most of the rest burn natural gas or propane. In a state with a genuine winter, the single largest energy load in the building is therefore not on the electric meter at all. 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Nationally the figures are 18.44 cents, 863 kWh, and $159.14. Delaware is about five percent above the national rate and about six percent above national usage, and those two modest premiums compound into a bill roughly eleven percent higher than average.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/delaware/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Delaware", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_delaware_1", "text": "Delaware sits inside PJM, the regional grid operator covering the mid-Atlantic and much of the Midwest, and the state's supply price is largely a PJM price. Gas-fired generation typically sets the marginal cost of energy across that footprint, so Delaware's commodity cost tracks natural gas rather than any local resource. Delaware generates far less than it consumes and imports the balance, which means transmission is not incidental here; it is the delivery mechanism for most of the state's power.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/delaware/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Delaware", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_delaware_2", "text": "Delaware sits on a climate boundary and pays for both sides of it. Winters are cold enough to require real heating; summers are hot and, more importantly, humid enough that air conditioners spend much of their energy removing moisture rather than lowering temperature. Few states have to fund both a genuine heating season and a long cooling season, and Delaware does. Heating fuel is the biggest driver of the usage figure. 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The national comparison is 18.44 cents, 863 kWh, and $159.14. The District's rate runs roughly 38 percent above the national average while its usage runs roughly 26 percent below it, and the two forces nearly cancel. The resulting bill is within two percent of the national figure. That coincidence produces a common misreading.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/district-of-columbia/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in District of Columbia", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_district-of-columbia_1", "text": "The District generates almost none of its own electricity. There is no meaningful power plant fleet inside the boundary, so essentially every kilowatt-hour is produced elsewhere in the PJM footprint and imported. That means the commodity price the District pays is a regional wholesale price set largely by gas-fired generation, not a local one, and it means the District's own cost structure is overwhelmingly about wires rather than generation. Urban wires are expensive.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/district-of-columbia/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in District of Columbia", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_district-of-columbia_2", "text": "639 kilowatt-hours is among the lowest household consumption figures in the country, and the explanation is architectural rather than behavioural. District residents are not unusually frugal. They live in unusually small, unusually well-shared buildings. Start with shared walls. Rowhouses and apartment buildings expose far less surface area per unit than a detached house does. 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Nationally: 18.44 cents, 863 kWh, $159.14. Florida's price is about 18 percent below the national average while its usage is about 28 percent above it, and volume wins. The bill comes in roughly five percent higher than the national figure despite genuinely cheap electricity. This is the most important thing to understand about a Florida bill.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/florida/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Florida", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_florida_1", "text": "Florida's rate is below the national average for reasons that are structural rather than accidental. The state's generating fleet is dominated by large, modern, high-efficiency natural gas combined-cycle plants, supplemented by nuclear output and by one of the largest utility-scale solar buildouts in the country. Combined-cycle gas plants convert fuel to electricity far more efficiently than the older steam units they replaced, and building at very large scale spreads fixed costs across an enormous customer base.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/florida/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Florida", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_florida_2", "text": "Almost everything in a Florida house that consumes energy consumes electricity, and the cooling season never really ends. Air conditioning is typically the largest single load in a Florida home, and the reason it is so large is humidity rather than temperature. An air conditioner in a dry climate mostly lowers air temperature. In Florida it spends a large share of its energy condensing moisture out of the air, work that consumes electricity without moving the thermostat.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/florida/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Florida", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "PART_OF", "target": "e_grp_regulated", "targetId": "e_grp_regulated", "targetName": "Regulated electricity states", "confidence": "declared" }, { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetId": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetName": "Electricity pricing", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_georgia", "@type": "Place", "name": "Georgia", "description": "Georgia averages 15.84 cents per kWh, below the national rate, but 1,074 kWh a month of usage lifts the typical bill to about $170.12.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_georgia_0", "text": "The average Georgia residential electric bill is $170.12 a month , from an average price of 15.84 cents per kilowatt-hour (May 2026) and average usage of 1,074 kWh a month . The national comparison is 18.44 cents, 863 kWh, and $159.14. Georgia buys electricity about 14 percent cheaper than the national average and uses about 24 percent more of it, and the second effect is larger. The bill lands roughly seven percent above the national figure. The shape of that outcome matters.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/georgia/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Georgia", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_georgia_1", "text": "Georgia's generating fleet is unusually diversified for the Southeast, and that diversity is the main reason the rate sits below the national average. Nuclear provides a large block of output that runs continuously and is insulated from fuel-price swings. Natural gas provides the flexible middle. Coal, once dominant, has declined substantially. Utility-scale solar has grown into a meaningful share, and Georgia has procured it competitively at large scale.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/georgia/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Georgia", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_georgia_2", "text": "Georgia's consumption is driven by a long cooling season, near-universal electric heating, and a housing stock that skews large. The cooling season is the obvious part. Georgia summers are long, hot, and humid, and humidity is the expensive half: air conditioners spend substantial energy condensing moisture rather than dropping temperature, so run times exceed what the thermostat setting implies. In south Georgia the cooling load starts in April and does not fully release until October. 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The national figures are 18.44 cents, 863 kWh, and $159.14. Hawaii's rate is roughly 2.8 times the national average. Its usage is about 43 percent below it. The result is the highest average electric bill in the United States, produced by the lowest household consumption.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/hawaii/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Hawaii", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_hawaii_1", "text": "Three structural facts explain nearly all of it, and none of them can be fixed by a different utility management team. Isolation. Hawaii's grids are not connected to any other electrical system, and the islands are not connected to each other. Every mainland utility, however remote, can import power when its own generation is short and export when it is long, and it shares reserve capacity with its neighbours. Hawaii can do neither.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/hawaii/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Hawaii", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_hawaii_2", "text": "Hawaii's consumption is the lowest in the country, and the reasons are climate, building tradition, and price all reinforcing each other. There is no heating season. In most of the United States the largest annual energy load in a home is keeping it warm. In Hawaii, at sea level, that load essentially does not exist. Removing an entire season of demand from the meter accounts for a large share of the gap by itself. 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That figure is the product of two numbers: an average residential rate of 12.35 cents per kilowatt-hour and average household consumption of 944 kWh a month . The national comparison is $159.14 a month, built from 18.44 cents per kWh and 863 kWh. Idaho households pay roughly $42 a month less than the country as a whole - about $510 a year - while using around nine percent more electricity. That inverts the usual assumption. A low bill is normally read as evidence of a frugal household.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/idaho/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Idaho", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_idaho_1", "text": "Idaho's rate advantage is almost entirely a generation story, and the generation story is water. The Snake River drops through a series of canyons across southern Idaho, and much of the state's power comes from hydroelectric dams built along it and along the Columbia system to the north. 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Nationally, the equivalent figures are 18.44 cents, 863 kWh, and $159.14. So Illinois sits about six dollars a month above the national bill while using roughly twenty percent less electricity. Run the counterfactual and the picture sharpens. An Illinois household consuming the national average of 863 kWh would pay close to $206 a month at the state's rate.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/illinois/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Illinois", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_illinois_1", "text": "Three distinct forces push the all-in Illinois rate above the national average, and only one of them is about generation. Delivery, and the arithmetic of low usage. Every residential bill in Illinois carries a fixed monthly customer charge and delivery charges that recover the cost of poles, wires, substations, meters, and the crews who maintain them. Those costs barely change with how much electricity you use, so dividing largely fixed costs by an unusually small number of kilowatt-hours raises the effective price per unit.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/illinois/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Illinois", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_illinois_2", "text": "693 kWh a month is among the lowest household consumption figures in the country, and in a state with brutal winters that surprises people. The explanation is mostly about which fuel does the hard work. Natural gas heats nearly everything. Illinois has one of the most thoroughly gas-heated housing stocks in the United States. 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That advantage has been narrowing, for reasons that have little to do with any single policy.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/indiana/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Indiana", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_indiana_2", "text": "901 kWh a month against a national 863 is a modest gap but a consistent one, with four sources. Summer humidity. Indiana summers are hot and, more to the point, humid. Dew points in the 70s mean an air conditioner spends a large share of its runtime removing moisture rather than lowering temperature, and latent load is expensive. The cooling season is meaningfully longer than in the northern Midwest and the equipment works harder within it. Electric heat outside the gas territories. 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The national comparison is 18.44 cents, 863 kWh, and $159.14. Kansas households use marginally more electricity than the national average - about 13 kWh a month, which is trivial - and pay roughly 18 percent less per unit. The bill lands about $26.60 a month below the national figure, near $320 a year. The saving is entirely a price effect.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/kansas/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Kansas", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_kansas_1", "text": "Kansas generation looks nothing like it did a generation ago. Wind now provides a very large share of the state's electricity - Kansas is consistently among the top states in the country by wind's share of in-state generation - alongside the Wolf Creek nuclear station, a shrinking coal fleet, and natural gas capacity used heavily at peak. 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It is a narrowing advantage, for structural rather than political reasons.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/kentucky/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Kentucky", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_kentucky_2", "text": "1,047 kWh a month is among the higher consumption figures in the country, and it is not a mystery. Decades of cheap electricity produced what economics predicts: buildings designed to use a lot of it. Electric heating is widespread. When electricity is cheap and gas service does not reach a property, electric resistance heat - baseboards, wall units, electric furnaces - is the low-cost thing to install. 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That figure comes from two numbers that pull in opposite directions: an average residential price of 14.15 cents per kilowatt-hour as of May 2026, and average consumption of about 1,202 kilowatt-hours a month . The national picture for comparison is 18.44 cents per kWh and 863 kWh a month, for an average bill of $159.14.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/louisiana/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Louisiana", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_louisiana_1", "text": "Louisiana sits on top of its own fuel supply. The state is a major natural gas producer, it hosts the pipeline and processing infrastructure of the Gulf Coast, and its power plants burn gas that has traveled a very short distance. Utilities elsewhere pay to move gas across the continent in winter and pay a premium when pipelines fill up; Louisiana generators mostly do not. Gas-fired generation dominates the state's electricity supply, with nuclear and a modest amount of coal filling in the rest. Two other structural advantages hold the price down.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/louisiana/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Louisiana", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_louisiana_2", "text": "At about 1,202 kWh a month, Louisiana households are among the heaviest electricity users in the United States. The reason is not waste. It is climate, and specifically humidity. Air conditioning in a dry climate has one job: lower the temperature. Air conditioning on the Gulf Coast has two: lower the temperature and pull water out of the air. 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The national comparison is 18.44 cents, 863 kWh and $159.14. Most expensive states are expensive for one reason. New England pays a high price for very little electricity; the Gulf South pays a low price for a great deal of it. Maryland is above the national line on both measures at once, and the two effects compound.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/maryland/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Maryland", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_maryland_1", "text": "Maryland sits inside PJM, the regional grid operator that runs the wholesale power market across the mid-Atlantic and much of the Midwest. Two features of that market drive Maryland's price. 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The national figures are 18.44 cents, 863 kWh and $159.14. Massachusetts pays over half again the national price and lands only slightly above the national bill, because it uses about a third less electricity than the country does. High price, small quantity.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/massachusetts/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Massachusetts", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_massachusetts_1", "text": "Massachusetts buys power in the New England wholesale market, where the price is usually set by a natural gas plant. New England sits at the end of the interstate pipeline network, and in cold weather the pipeline capacity that exists is committed first to buildings that heat with gas. Power plants take what is left, or burn costlier fuels, and the wholesale price rises accordingly. That winter constraint is the single largest structural reason electricity in this region costs what it does, and no amount of consumer behavior touches it.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/massachusetts/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Massachusetts", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_massachusetts_2", "text": "At about 570 kWh a month, Massachusetts uses less electricity per household than nearly every other state. Three things account for it. Heating happens elsewhere on the energy budget. Natural gas is the dominant heating fuel across metropolitan Boston and the older industrial cities, with heating oil common in the suburbs and rural areas and propane in pockets beyond the gas mains. The largest energy load in a New England home for six months of the year is therefore mostly absent from the electric meter. 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Against a national average of 18.44 cents, 863 kWh and a $159.14 bill, that is a striking split. Michigan pays a noticeably higher price than the country and a noticeably smaller bill, which is a combination people find counterintuitive until they see the usage figure.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/michigan/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Michigan", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_michigan_1", "text": "At 22.01 cents per kWh, Michigan prices electricity well above its neighbors and above the national average. Three cost pressures explain most of it, and none of them are temporary. Generation turnover. Michigan's electricity supply has been in transition for years, with aging coal units retiring and being replaced by natural gas, wind, solar and purchased power. Retiring a plant does not end its cost; utilities recover the remaining undepreciated investment from customers, and the replacement capacity is new capital that also enters the rate base.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/michigan/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Michigan", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_michigan_2", "text": "Michigan winters are long and cold, and almost none of that cold is fought with electricity. Natural gas is the dominant home heating fuel across the state — Michigan is one of the most thoroughly gas-heated states in the country, helped by extensive distribution mains and by the vast underground gas storage capacity within its own borders, which lets suppliers inject gas in summer and withdraw it in winter. Propane fills in beyond the mains, and wood remains common in the north.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/michigan/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Michigan", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "PART_OF", "target": "e_grp_regulated", "targetId": "e_grp_regulated", "targetName": "Regulated electricity states", "confidence": "declared" }, { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetId": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetName": "Electricity pricing", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_minnesota", "@type": "Place", "name": "Minnesota", "description": "Minnesota households average 712 kWh a month at 16.95 cents per kWh, giving an average electric bill near $120.68 — below the national figure on both counts.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_minnesota_0", "text": "The average Minnesota household pays about $120.68 a month for electricity: an average residential price of 16.95 cents per kilowatt-hour as of May 2026 and average consumption of roughly 712 kilowatt-hours a month . Nationally, the comparable figures are 18.44 cents, 863 kWh and $159.14. Minnesota is below the national line on both halves at once, which is unusual — most states are cheap on price and heavy on usage, or the reverse.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/minnesota/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Minnesota", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_minnesota_1", "text": "Minnesota sits in the middle of North America's best onshore wind resource, and it has built accordingly. Wind generation has an unusual economic property: essentially no fuel cost. Once the turbine is paid for, the marginal cost of the next kilowatt-hour is close to nothing, which both lowers average cost and — more importantly for households — insulates the state from natural gas price spikes that hit gas-dependent regions hard. A state whose power comes substantially from wind and nuclear has less of its bill exposed to a cold snap in the gas market.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/minnesota/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Minnesota", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_minnesota_2", "text": "The intuition that a cold state must use a lot of electricity is wrong, and Minnesota is the clearest proof. Heating here is overwhelmingly done with natural gas in the metro area and the cities, and with propane, fuel oil or wood beyond the gas mains. Almost the entire winter energy load — the largest energy expense a Minnesota household has — never touches the electric meter. 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That figure is the product of two numbers pulling hard in opposite directions: an average residential rate of 16.16 cents per kilowatt-hour as of May 2026, which is roughly 12 percent below the national average of 18.44 cents, and average consumption of 1,156 kilowatt-hours a month , which is about 34 percent above the national average of 863. Mississippi buys cheap electricity in unusually large quantities, and the quantity wins by a wide margin.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/mississippi/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Mississippi", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_mississippi_1", "text": "Mississippi is a fully regulated state. The utility that generates or buys your power is the same company that owns the poles and wires delivering it, and it charges a single bundled price approved by regulators. There is no competitive supplier market for residential customers, so the rate is not the outcome of shopping; it is the outcome of rate cases, fuel costs, and the physical shape of the system. Generation is the largest reason the rate is low.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/mississippi/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Mississippi", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_mississippi_2", "text": "Consumption, not price, is the Mississippi story. Several things stack on top of each other. The cooling season is long and the air is wet. An air conditioner in Mississippi is not only lowering temperature, it is removing moisture, and latent load — the energy spent condensing water out of humid air — is real work that never appears on a thermostat. Two houses at the same indoor temperature in Phoenix and in Jackson do not use the same electricity. 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That comes from an average residential rate of 13.68 cents per kilowatt-hour as of May 2026 — about 26 percent below the national average of 18.44 cents — applied to 1,001 kilowatt-hours a month, which is about 16 percent above the national average of 863. The cheap rate more than absorbs the heavy usage, and the resulting bill lands roughly 14 percent under the national average of $159.14. What that single number hides is a state with two distinct seasonal peaks.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/missouri/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Missouri", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_missouri_1", "text": "Missouri is a regulated state: utilities own generation, transmission, and distribution, and sell a bundled product at prices set by the Missouri Public Service Commission through rate cases. Residential customers have no competitive supply market, so nothing about the price is negotiable at the household level. The rate is low for reasons that are mostly historical and physical.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/missouri/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Missouri", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_missouri_2", "text": "Missouri's usage runs above the national average because the state pays a climate penalty at both ends of the year, and because the housing stock is old. Summer. Missouri summers are hot and humid, not hot and dry. Air conditioners here spend meaningful energy on dehumidification, and July stretches of high overnight temperatures mean the system never gets the cheap recovery period that a dry climate offers after sunset. Central air is close to universal in newer housing and common in older housing. Winter. 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All of that pushes generation costs down.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/montana/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Montana", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_montana_2", "text": "Four things hold Montana's electric consumption near the national average despite the climate. Heating is mostly not electric. Natural gas serves much of Billings, Missoula, Great Falls, Bozeman, and the other population centers. Outside the gas mains, propane, fuel oil, and wood stoves do the work. All of that heating energy is real and expensive, but it is invoiced somewhere other than the electric bill. 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New England has limited pipeline capacity into the region, and on the coldest days that capacity is prioritised for heating customers over power generators.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/new-hampshire/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in New Hampshire", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_new-hampshire_2", "text": "619 kilowatt-hours a month is a low figure by any standard, and the reasons are almost entirely about what electricity is not being asked to do here. Heating is not electric. Fuel oil, propane, and wood dominate, with natural gas in limited service areas. The single largest energy load in a New Hampshire home is bought by the gallon or the cord, not the kilowatt-hour. This one fact accounts for most of the gap between New Hampshire and states with electric heat. 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Set that beside the national picture — 863 kWh at 18.44 cents, for $159.14 — and the state looks like a contradiction. New Jersey electricity costs about a quarter more per unit than the national average, and the monthly bill comes in slightly below it. Consumption is the reconciliation.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/new-jersey/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in New Jersey", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_new-jersey_1", "text": "New Jersey sits inside PJM, the regional wholesale market that dispatches generation across a large slice of the mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Prices there are set at the margin by natural gas plants for most hours of most days, so the wholesale cost of power in New Jersey tracks the delivered price of gas even though a substantial share of the state's own generation is nuclear. 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Utility-scale wind and solar have essentially no fuel cost once built — the expense is capital, financed over decades — so a fleet weighted toward them is insulated from the fuel price swings that whipsaw gas-dependent states.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/new-mexico/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in New Mexico", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_new-mexico_2", "text": "At 654 kWh a month, New Mexico households use about a quarter less electricity than the national average, and four things account for it. The first is dry air. Humidity is the underappreciated half of an air conditioning bill: a large share of what a compressor does in a humid climate is condensing water out of the air, work that is invisible on a thermostat and expensive on a meter. New Mexico air carries very little water. 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Against the national figures — 863 kWh at 18.44 cents for $159.14 — the shape is stark. New Yorkers pay about 62 percent more per unit of electricity than the country as a whole and buy about 34 percent less of it. The bill ends up only modestly above average because the two extremes partially cancel.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/new-york/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in New York", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_new-york_1", "text": "Very little of New York's price is the cost of generating electricity. The largest driver is delivery — what you pay the wires company to move power to you, regardless of who generated it — and downstate delivery is expensive for physical reasons. 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Compared with the national figures of 863 kWh at 18.44 cents for $159.14, the pattern is a familiar one in energy-producing states: a price about 26 percent below the national average, consumption about 19 percent above it, and a bill that lands roughly 12 percent under the national number. The average conceals more here than in most places, because North Dakota's residential customers are not a homogeneous group.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/north-dakota/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in North Dakota", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_north-dakota_1", "text": "North Dakota's price is low because its generation is close to its fuel and close to nothing else. The state's coal fleet is largely mine-mouth: lignite is surface-mined immediately adjacent to the power plants that burn it, and moved by conveyor rather than by rail. 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Default supply is bought through competitive procurement rather than produced in-house, so the generation portion of an Ohio bill tracks market outcomes rather than the book cost of a utility fleet.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/ohio/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Ohio", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_ohio_2", "text": "At 846 kWh a month Ohio sits marginally below the national average, and that unremarkable number is the product of two strong forces cancelling each other. Pulling consumption down: natural gas. 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In the eastern half of the state it runs from March into November, and the daily pattern matters as much as the calendar: the heat does not release at night the way it does in a dry climate, so the compressor keeps cycling through the small hours in July and August.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/texas/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Texas", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "PART_OF", "target": "e_grp_deregulated", "targetId": "e_grp_deregulated", "targetName": "Deregulated electricity states", "confidence": "declared" }, { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetId": "e_electricity_pricing", "targetName": "Electricity pricing", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_utah", "@type": "Place", "name": "Utah", "description": "Utah households average $100.31 a month at 12.96 cents per kWh — one of the lowest bills in the country, built on cheap power and modest usage of 774 kWh.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_utah_0", "text": "The average residential electricity bill in Utah is $100.31 a month — around 774 kWh of consumption at 12.96 cents per kWh as of May 2026. 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Every ton of coal arrives by rail from the western basins, and every therm of gas arrives by pipeline from out of state.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/average-electric-bill/wisconsin/", "pageTitle": "Average Electric Bill in Wisconsin", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_wisconsin_2", "text": "At 645 kWh a month the average Wisconsin household is among the lightest electricity users in the country, and it is not because Wisconsin winters are gentle. Four things explain it. Gas does the heating. The great majority of Wisconsin homes burn natural gas for space heat, and most burn it for water heating too. 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Per day it is about 22 cents — less than the coffee that goes into it.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/refrigerator/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Refrigerator Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_refrigerator_2", "text": "This is where refrigerator numbers get genuinely confusing, and the confusion is worth understanding rather than papering over. The EnergyGuide label on a new refrigerator typically claims 350 to 450 kWh a year. The Energy Information Administration's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, which measures what households actually consume, puts refrigeration at 839 kWh a year for the average US home. That is nearly a factor of two apart, and both are correct. 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At the US average residential rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 33.6 × $0.1844 works out to about $6.20 a month , or roughly $74 a year. On a daily basis, about 20 cents. The ends of the range matter here more than for most appliances.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/freezer-chest-upright/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Freezer (Chest or Upright) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_freezer-chest-upright_2", "text": "The published figures for freezers are further apart than for almost any other appliance, and the reason is instructive. EIA's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey measured 570 kWh a year for the average separate freezer in American homes. The EnergyGuide label on a new ENERGY STAR chest model claims roughly 215 to 260 kWh a year . That is a gap of more than two to one. Neither is wrong. 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For the dryer: 3,000 W × 0.6 hours = 1,800 watt-hours, or 1.8 kWh a day . Multiply by 30.4 days and the month comes to 54.7 kWh . At the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, that is 54.7 × $0.1844 = about $10.09 a month , or roughly $121 a year. That annual figure is a useful sanity check, because it lands close to an independent measurement. EIA's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey metered 680 kWh a year per household for clothes drying, about $125 at the average rate.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/clothes-dryer-electric/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Clothes Dryer (Electric) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_clothes-dryer-electric_2", "text": "Almost all of the variation in dryer cost comes from three things, and the wattage on the label is not one of them. How many loads you run. This is the dominant term and it scales linearly. Household size drives it, and so do towels, bedding and sports kit. How wet the clothes are when they go in. The dryer's job is evaporating water, so the spin speed of your washer determines how much water it has to remove.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/clothes-dryer-electric/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Clothes Dryer (Electric) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_clothes_washer", "@type": "Product", "name": "Clothes Washer", "description": "About 5 loads a week at 50-60 minutes each is roughly 0.4 hours a day. The critical point is that this wattage is the machine only -- motor, controls, pump. If you wash warm or hot, the water heater does the real work and that energy lands on the water heater line of your bill, not here. That is why", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_clothes-washer_0", "text": "A clothes washer draws about 500 W, with typical machines falling between 350 W and 500 W. That figure covers the motor turning the drum, the control board, the pump moving water out, and the high-speed spin at the end of the cycle. It does not include heating water, and that omission is the single most important fact on this page. The machine runs about 50 to 60 minutes per load, and a typical household runs about five loads a week, which averages to roughly 0.4 hours a day .", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/clothes-washer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Clothes Washer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_clothes-washer_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For the washer: 500 W × 0.4 hours = 200 watt-hours, which is 0.2 kWh a day . Over 30.4 days that is 6.1 kWh a month . At the US average residential rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 6.1 × $0.1844 = about $1.12 a month . For the year, roughly 73 kWh and $13.46 — within a few percent of EIA's measured 69 kWh, which is reassuring. Per load, five loads a week works out to about 0.28 kWh, or roughly five cents of electricity for the machine itself.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/clothes-washer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Clothes Washer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_clothes-washer_2", "text": "The electrical figure for a washer is stable and small, and the things that move it are modest: Load count. Linear, and the biggest single factor. Twice the loads, twice the electricity. Machine type. Front-loaders spin faster and use less water than traditional top-loaders, so they draw more during spin but for less total time, and they leave clothes drier. Cycle selection. Heavy-duty and sanitise cycles run longer and agitate more; a quick wash is a fraction of the time. Spin speed.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/clothes-washer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Clothes Washer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_dishwasher", "@type": "Product", "name": "Dishwasher", "description": "A cycle runs 1.5-2.5 hours on the clock but the heating element only fires during wash-water heat-up and heated dry -- roughly 30-45 minutes of real draw across about 4 loads a week. 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At the US average residential rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 10.9 × $0.1844 = about $2.02 a month , or roughly $24 a year. Per load, four loads a week works out to about 0.63 kWh, or roughly 12 cents of electricity for the machine. At the ends of the range: a 1,000 W machine gives 9.1 kWh a month and about $1.68, while a 2,400 W machine gives 21.9 kWh and about $4.04.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/dishwasher/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Dishwasher Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_dishwasher_2", "text": "The three-to-one gap between 112 kWh and 307 kWh a year deserves a proper explanation, because it is the single reason dishwasher cost estimates are unreliable. A dishwasher can get hot water two ways. It can draw already-heated water from your home's water heater, or it can take cold water and heat it internally with its own element, or some combination. When a standard or a certification programme quotes an annual figure, it generally includes the water heating regardless of where it happens, because that is the honest total cost of washing dishes.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/dishwasher/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Dishwasher Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_electric_oven_range", "@type": "Product", "name": "Electric Oven / Range", "description": "An oven set to 350F does not draw 2,400 W continuously -- it pulls full power through preheat, then cycles the element on only 20-30% of the time to hold temperature. SCE lists 2,000 W for a large surface burner and 800-1,200 W for a small one, used in short bursts. Combined oven-plus-cooktop use av", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_electric-oven-range_0", "text": "An electric range is really two appliances sharing a cabinet and a circuit, and they behave differently. The oven is a large heating element, typically around 2,400 W, inside an insulated box with a thermostat. It draws full power during preheat, when it is bringing a cold cavity and its steel racks up to temperature. Once it reaches setpoint the thermostat takes over and the element cycles — switching on and off to replace heat lost through the door and walls. Holding 350°F typically means the element is energised only 20 to 30 percent of the time.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-oven-range/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Oven / Range Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_electric-oven-range_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For an electric range: 2,400 W × 0.33 hours = 792 watt-hours, which is 0.792 kWh a day . Over a 30.4-day month that is 24.1 kWh . At the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 24.1 × $0.1844 = about $4.44 a month , or roughly 15 cents a day. Annually that comes to about 290 kWh — which is exactly what EIA's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey measured for electric cooking. When a bottom-up wattage calculation and a national metering survey land on the same figure, you can use it with some confidence.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-oven-range/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Oven / Range Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_electric-oven-range_2", "text": "Cooking energy varies more between households than almost any other kitchen load, because it tracks behaviour rather than hardware: How often the oven runs and for how long. Preheat is a fixed cost paid every time you turn it on, so four short bakes cost far more than one long one. Oven versus cooktop versus small appliance. Heating a large insulated cavity to cook one potato is the most expensive way to do it available in a kitchen. Door opening. Every look costs a slug of heat the element has to replace, and it extends cook time.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-oven-range/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Oven / Range Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_microwave", "@type": "Product", "name": "Microwave Oven", "description": "The number on the front of a microwave -- '1,000 W' -- is cooking output, not electricity draw; input runs 40-60% higher. 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For a microwave: 1,100 W × 0.25 hours = 275 watt-hours, which is 0.275 kWh a day . Over 30.4 days that is 8.4 kWh a month . At the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 8.4 × $0.1844 = about $1.55 a month , or roughly $18.59 a year. Per day, about five cents. At the ends of the range: a 600 W input machine at the same 15 minutes gives 4.6 kWh a month, about 84 cents. An 1,800 W machine gives 13.7 kWh, about $2.52.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/microwave/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Microwave Oven Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_microwave_2", "text": "Microwave consumption is unusually predictable, because the machine has no thermostat, no water connection and no long cycles. What variation exists comes from: How many minutes a day you run it. This is nearly the whole story, and it scales exactly. Rated output. A higher-output machine draws more but finishes sooner, so the energy per dish is broadly similar. Buying a more powerful microwave does not meaningfully raise your bill. Power level. Setting 50 percent does not halve the draw.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/microwave/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Microwave Oven Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_toaster_oven", "@type": "Product", "name": "Toaster Oven", "description": "DOE lists 1,225 W and DTE's chart puts it at 1,277 W -- close agreement. Like a full-size oven it cycles the element to hold temperature, but the tiny cavity means preheat is under 5 minutes instead of 10-15, so nearly all of its runtime is productive cooking rather than warm-up.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_toaster-oven_0", "text": "A toaster oven draws about 1,225 W, and the sources agree closely here for once: DOE's appliance table lists 1,225 W and DTE's chart puts it at 1,277 W. Across the market, expect 1,000 W for a small two-slice unit up to 1,800 W for a large countertop convection model that doubles as an air fryer. Most plug into an ordinary 15-amp circuit, which caps what they can draw. Like a full-size oven, it does not hold that draw continuously. The element runs flat out during preheat, then a thermostat cycles it on and off to maintain temperature.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/toaster-oven/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Toaster Oven Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_toaster-oven_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For a toaster oven: 1,225 W × 0.25 hours = 306 watt-hours, or 0.306 kWh a day . Over a 30.4-day month that is 9.3 kWh . At the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 9.3 × $0.1844 = about $1.72 a month , roughly $20.60 a year, or about six cents a day. At the ends of the range: a 1,000 W unit at the same usage gives 7.6 kWh a month and about $1.40; an 1,800 W convection model gives 13.7 kWh and about $2.52. The spread is narrow because the machine is small and the hours are few.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/toaster-oven/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Toaster Oven Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_toaster-oven_2", "text": "There is not much room for variation in a $1.72-a-month appliance, but the factors that matter are: Minutes of use per day. Overwhelmingly the dominant term, and it scales exactly. Cavity size. Larger countertop ovens draw more and take longer to preheat, which erodes the advantage they have over a wall oven. Function. Toasting runs the elements continuously for a few minutes; baking runs them hard during preheat and then intermittently. Air-fry modes add a fan but are otherwise the same heat. Temperature and door seal.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/toaster-oven/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Toaster Oven Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_air_fryer", "@type": "Product", "name": "Air Fryer", "description": "Nameplate ratings run 800-1,800 W, similar to a toaster oven, but that is peak draw before the thermostat starts cycling. Forced convection cuts cook times 20-40% and preheat to 2-3 minutes, so typical daily runtime is only about 12 minutes. We Energies lists air fryers in its kitchen calculator alo", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_air-fryer_0", "text": "An air fryer is a small convection oven with an aggressive fan, and its electrical behaviour follows from that. Nameplate ratings — the peak wattage printed on the data plate or in the manual — run from 800 W for a two-quart basket to 1,800 W for a large multi-shelf model, with 1,500 W the common middle. We Energies lists air fryers in its kitchen calculator alongside toaster ovens at comparable wattage, which is the right comparison: the heating element is the same kind of resistance coil.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/air-fryer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Air Fryer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_air-fryer_1", "text": "The arithmetic is the same for every appliance on this site. Watts multiplied by hours of genuine running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. Multiply by 30.4 — the average length of a month — for a monthly figure, then multiply by your price per kWh. For an air fryer at 1,500 W running 0.2 hours: 1,500 × 0.2 = 300 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 0.3 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 9.1 kWh per month . At the US average residential rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, that is 9.1 × $0.1844 = about $1.68 a month , or roughly $20 a year.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/air-fryer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Air Fryer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_air-fryer_2", "text": "Nothing about air fryer energy use is mysterious, but the drivers are not the ones people expect. Wattage barely matters, because a higher-wattage unit reaches temperature sooner and then cycles off sooner. What matters is total minutes with the element energised. Cavity size. A ten-quart basket or a two-shelf oven-style model has more air and more metal to heat, and more surface losing that heat to the kitchen. It draws more and it holds the element on longer. Batching. Two half-full baskets pay the heat-up cost twice.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/air-fryer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Air Fryer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_coffee_maker", "@type": "Product", "name": "Coffee Maker", "description": "DOE lists 900-1,200 W and SCE lists 600-900 W; the spread is drip machines versus single-serve pod brewers with heated reservoirs. Brewing takes only 5-10 minutes, but a glass-carafe machine's warming plate keeps pulling 50-100 W for as long as it stays on, which is what pushes effective runtime to ", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_coffee-maker_0", "text": "Two respectable sources give two different answers for the same appliance. The Department of Energy's wattage table lists 900–1,200 W for a coffee maker. Southern California Edison's ratings sheet lists 600–900 W. Neither is wrong, and the gap is worth understanding rather than averaging away. The higher figure describes a standard drip machine, where a single resistance element flash-heats water as it passes through a tube on its way to the basket.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/coffee-maker/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Coffee Maker Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_coffee-maker_1", "text": "The formula is watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day, then × 30.4 for a month, then × your rate. For a coffee maker at 1,000 W with 0.25 hours of full-power-equivalent running: 1,000 × 0.25 = 250 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 0.25 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 7.6 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh that is 7.6 × $0.1844 = about $1.40 a month , or roughly $16.82 a year. A single pot works out near five cents. The ends of the range: a 600 W machine on the same pattern uses 0.15 kWh a day, 4.6 kWh a month, about $0.84.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/coffee-maker/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Coffee Maker Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_coffee-maker_2", "text": "Coffee makers are simple machines, so the variables are few and mostly about what happens after the brew finishes. Carafe type. A glass carafe needs a heated plate underneath it; a thermal carafe is a vacuum flask and needs nothing. This is the biggest single difference between two otherwise identical machines. How long the machine stays on. A warming plate left running from 7am to 9am uses more than the brew cycle. Left on all day, it dwarfs it. Most machines have an auto-shutoff, often adjustable between roughly half an hour and four hours.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/coffee-maker/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Coffee Maker Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_central_air_conditioner", "@type": "Product", "name": "Central Air Conditioner", "description": "These are cooling-season hours, not year-round hours. A 3-ton, 14-SEER system draws roughly 3,000-3,500 W including the air handler and runs about 6 hours a day during a hot-climate summer month -- but only 1-3 hours a day in a mild climate and essentially zero for half the year. EIA RECS 2020 measu", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_central-air-conditioner_0", "text": "A central system is two machines wired together, and both count. Outside, the condensing unit runs a compressor and a condenser fan. Inside, the air handler runs a blower that pushes cooled air through the ducts. A 3-ton, 14-SEER system — a common size for a mid-sized American house — draws roughly 3,000 to 3,500 W with both ends running, and the blower alone accounts for 300 to 500 W of that. The nameplate on the condenser is not that number.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/central-air-conditioner/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Central Air Conditioner Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_central-air-conditioner_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. Multiply by 30.4 for a month, then by your rate. At 3,500 W for 6 hours: 3,500 × 6 = 21,000 watt-hours, or 21 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 638.4 kWh per month . At the US average of 18.44 cents per kWh that is 638.4 × $0.1844 = about $117.72 for a peak cooling month , or roughly $3.87 a day. The range is wide. A 2,000 W system on the same hours uses 12 kWh a day, 364.8 kWh a month, about $67.27. A 5,000 W system uses 30 kWh a day, 912 kWh a month, about $168.17.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/central-air-conditioner/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Central Air Conditioner Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_central-air-conditioner_2", "text": "Cooling is the end use where identical-looking houses diverge most, and the reasons compound. Climate and season length. The dominant variable, and the one you cannot change. Phoenix and Portland run the same equipment for wildly different numbers of hours. Efficiency rating. SEER measures seasonal cooling output per watt-hour consumed. A system replaced this decade does the same job on materially less electricity than one from the 1990s, and the difference persists every hour it runs. Sizing.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/central-air-conditioner/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Central Air Conditioner Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_window_air_conditioner", "@type": "Product", "name": "Window Air Conditioner", "description": "A 10,000 BTU window unit draws roughly 900 W. Runtime is higher than you would expect -- often 8+ hours a day in season -- because a window unit usually cools one occupied room continuously rather than cycling a whole house from a central thermostat. ENERGY STAR notes room units span 5,000 BTU (100-", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_window-air-conditioner_0", "text": "A 10,000 BTU window unit — the size that suits a large bedroom or a small living room — draws roughly 900 W with the compressor running. That figure covers the compressor and both fans, since a room unit packages the whole refrigeration cycle into one chassis with the condenser hanging outside the sash. The spread across room air conditioners is not a quality range; it is a sizing range. ENERGY STAR describes room units from 5,000 BTU, rated for roughly 100 to 150 square feet and drawing near 500 W, up to 34,000 BTU units meant for large open spaces.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/window-air-conditioner/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Window Air Conditioner Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_window-air-conditioner_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day, × 30.4 for a month, × your rate. At 900 W for 8 hours: 900 × 8 = 7,200 watt-hours, or 7.2 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 218.9 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh that is 218.88 × $0.1844 = about $40.36 a month in season , or roughly $1.33 a day. Size drives the range. A 5,000 BTU unit near 500 W on the same hours uses 4 kWh a day, 121.6 kWh a month, about $22.42. A large 1,440 W unit uses 11.52 kWh a day, 350.2 kWh a month, about $64.58.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/window-air-conditioner/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Window Air Conditioner Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_window-air-conditioner_2", "text": "The drivers here are mostly about installation and sizing, which is unusual — for most appliances the machine itself dominates. Capacity versus room size. Undersized and it never stops running. Oversized and it cools the air fast, shuts off before it has removed moisture, and leaves the room cold and damp — which people answer by setting it lower still. Install quality. The accordion side panels shipped with most units are thin plastic that seals badly.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/window-air-conditioner/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Window Air Conditioner Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_space_heater", "@type": "Product", "name": "Space Heater (Portable Electric)", "description": "Essentially every portable electric heater sold in the US tops out at 1,500 W, because that is the most a standard 15-amp, 120-volt branch circuit can safely carry continuously -- DOE's 750-1,500 W range is just the low and high switch positions of the same appliance, and SCE lists 800-1,500 W. Runt", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_space-heater_0", "text": "Essentially every portable electric heater sold in the United States tops out at 1,500 W, and the reason is electrical rather than thermal. A standard household branch circuit is 15 amps at 120 volts, which is 1,800 watts of absolute capacity, and continuous loads must sit well below that. 1,500 W is the largest round number that fits with margin for the rest of the circuit. This is why the hardware store shelf is full of visibly different appliances with identical ratings. The published ranges reflect that ceiling rather than any real variety.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/space-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Space Heater (Portable Electric) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_space-heater_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day, × 30.4 for a month, × your rate. At 1,500 W for 5 hours: 1,500 × 5 = 7,500 watt-hours, or 7.5 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 228 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh that is 228 × $0.1844 = about $42.04 a month . Per hour of full-power running it is 1.5 kWh, about 28 cents — a number worth memorising. Now the range, which is the point of this appliance. On the low switch position, 750 W for 5 hours is 3.75 kWh a day, 114 kWh a month, about $21.02. At 2 hours a day on high: 91.2 kWh a month, about $16.82.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/space-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Space Heater (Portable Electric) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_space-heater_2", "text": "Because wattage is fixed by the circuit, every variable that matters is about how long the element stays energised. Hours of use. The dominant factor by an order of magnitude. Two hours a day and ten hours a day differ by more than five times, on identical hardware. Thermostat or no thermostat. A heater with a working thermostat cycles off once the room is warm. A simple on/off model runs flat out until you notice. This is the one specification worth paying for. Room size and insulation. A small, sealed, interior room reaches setpoint and stays there.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/space-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Space Heater (Portable Electric) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_electric_furnace_heat_pump", "@type": "Product", "name": "Electric Furnace / Heat Pump", "description": "This is the widest range in the dataset, and the driver is technology, not house size. 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Moving heat costs far less than creating it, so a heat pump warming a typical home draws roughly 3,000 to 5,000 W, about what the same equipment draws running as an air conditioner in summer.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-furnace-heat-pump/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Furnace / Heat Pump Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_electric-furnace-heat-pump_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day, × 30.4 for a month, × your rate. At 5,000 W for 3.5 hours: 5,000 × 3.5 = 17,500 watt-hours, or 17.5 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 532 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh that is 532 × $0.1844 = about $98.10 for a heating month , or roughly $3.23 a day. Now the same hours on different technology, which is where the money is. A 3,000 W heat pump: 10.5 kWh a day, 319.2 kWh a month, about $58.86. A 15,000 W resistance furnace: 52.5 kWh a day, 1,596 kWh a month, about $294.30.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-furnace-heat-pump/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Furnace / Heat Pump Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_electric-furnace-heat-pump_2", "text": "This is the widest range in household energy, and the variables stack rather than average out. Technology. Heat pump versus resistance is the whole ballgame — three to five times, before anything else is considered. Outdoor temperature. A heat pump's efficiency falls as the outdoor air it is harvesting gets colder, so the same thermostat setting costs more per hour in January than in November. Cold-climate models hold their output far lower than older equipment did. 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DTE's time-of-day chart puts a ceiling fan near 140 watt-hours per operating hour, which is effectively 140 W. Newer DC-motor models draw as little as 30 W on medium. ENERGY STAR certified fans are up to 44% more efficient than conventional ones, thanks to better motors and blade designs. All of those describe real fans. The spread comes from three things.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/ceiling-fan/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Ceiling Fan Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_ceiling-fan_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day, × 30.4 for a month, × your rate. At 75 W for 6 hours: 75 × 6 = 450 watt-hours, or 0.45 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 13.7 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh that is 13.68 × $0.1844 = about $2.52 a month , or roughly eight cents a day. The ends of the range: an efficient DC fan at 30 W on the same hours uses 0.18 kWh a day, 5.5 kWh a month, about $1.01. An older high-wattage fan at 175 W uses 1.05 kWh a day, 31.9 kWh a month, about $5.89.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/ceiling-fan/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Ceiling Fan Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_ceiling-fan_2", "text": "Fan energy is straightforward physics with a few practical wrinkles. Motor type. DC brushless motors draw substantially less than AC induction motors for the same airflow, and they are quieter at low speed. This is the largest hardware difference. Speed setting. Power rises steeply with speed, so running on low rather than high cuts consumption sharply. Most rooms are comfortable on medium. Blade span and pitch. A large, well-pitched blade moves more air per watt than a small flat one spinning fast.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/ceiling-fan/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Ceiling Fan Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_dehumidifier", "@type": "Product", "name": "Dehumidifier", "description": "DOE's table lists 785 W; modern ENERGY STAR 50-pint units draw closer to 500 W and use about 20% less energy than conventional models. What makes a dehumidifier one of the largest hidden loads in a home is runtime, not wattage -- a basement unit fighting summer humidity can run 10-16 hours a day for", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_dehumidifier_0", "text": "A dehumidifier is a small air conditioner that throws its cold and its heat back into the same room. Air passes over a chilled evaporator coil, water condenses out and drips into a bucket or a hose, and the now-dry air passes over the hot condenser coil before returning to the room slightly warmer than it left. Compressor and fan together draw about 500 W on a modern ENERGY STAR 50-pint unit, which uses about 20% less energy than a conventional model. The published figures disagree, and the gap is generational.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/dehumidifier/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Dehumidifier Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_dehumidifier_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day, × 30.4 for a month, × your rate. At 500 W for 10 hours: 500 × 10 = 5,000 watt-hours, or 5 kWh per day . Times 30.4 gives 152 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh that is 152 × $0.1844 = about $28.03 a month , or roughly 92 cents a day. Both variables move it. A small 300 W unit on the same hours uses 3 kWh a day, 91.2 kWh a month, about $16.82. A large 800 W unit uses 8 kWh a day, 243.2 kWh a month, about $44.85.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/dehumidifier/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Dehumidifier Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_dehumidifier_2", "text": "Almost every variable here works through runtime rather than wattage, which is why two identical units in two different basements can differ by a factor of five in what they cost over a season. How wet the space actually is. A basement with a water problem presents an unlimited load, so the unit never satisfies. A dry basement with mild summer humidity might run two hours a day. Humidistat setting. The gap between target and ambient humidity sets run hours.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/dehumidifier/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Dehumidifier Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_humidifier", "@type": "Product", "name": "Humidifier", "description": "The range here is a technology split, not a size split. Evaporative and ultrasonic humidifiers only run a fan or a piezo transducer and draw 30-60 W; warm-mist units boil the water and draw 250-500 W for the same output. Runtime is long -- typically overnight or all day through the dry heating month", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_humidifier_0", "text": "Humidifier wattage gets quoted across a range so wide it looks like a typographical error: 30 watts at one end, 500 at the other. The range is accurate. What it is not is the thing most appliance ranges describe. This is not a size split, where a bigger machine uses more for a bigger room. It is a technology split, and the two technologies put water into the air by completely different physics.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/humidifier/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Humidifier Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_humidifier_1", "text": "The arithmetic is the same for every appliance on this site: watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. At the blended 150 W over 10 hours: 150 × 10 = 1,500 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 1.5 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4, the average number of days in a month, that is 45.6 kWh per month . At the US average residential rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 45.6 × $0.1844 comes to about $8.41 a month , or roughly 28 cents a day.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/humidifier/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Humidifier Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_humidifier_2", "text": "Beyond the technology choice, five things drive a humidifier's consumption, and only two of them are settings you touch. Humidistat setpoint. The master control. A unit told to hold 50 percent relative humidity in a leaky house may never switch off; the same unit at 35 percent in a tight house cycles for a couple of hours a night. How leaky the house is. Every air change swaps humidified indoor air for dry outdoor air. Air sealing does more for a humidifier's runtime than anything on the humidifier itself. 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Open the access panel on a standard residential unit and you will find two heating elements, each typically rated 4,500 W, which is where a persistent piece of misinformation begins. They are wired non-simultaneously : an interlock in the upper thermostat guarantees that only one element can be energised at any moment. The upper element fires first to recover the top of the tank quickly, then control passes to the lower one. Running draw is 4,500 W, not 9,000 W.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-water-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Water Heater (Tank) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_electric-water-heater_1", "text": "This is worth understanding rather than smoothing over, because the two authoritative sources sit nearly twice apart and both are defensible. The Energy Information Administration's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey measured 2,706 kWh a year for the average household that heats water electrically. That is the figure this page is calibrated to, and it works out to roughly 1.7 effective hours a day at 4,500 W.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-water-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Water Heater (Tank) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_electric-water-heater_2", "text": "Watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. At 4,500 W over 1.7 effective hours: 4,500 × 1.7 = 7,650 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 7.65 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4 days, that is 232.6 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh, 232.6 × $0.1844 is about $42.89 a month , roughly $515 a year. Calibrated instead to the survey's measured 2,706 kWh a year, the annual figure is about $499. Run the DOE family-of-four range the same way.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/electric-water-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Water Heater (Tank) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_tankless_electric_water_heater", "@type": "Product", "name": "Tankless Electric Water Heater", "description": "The wattage looks alarming because it is: a whole-house electric tankless unit draws 18,000-36,000 W, typically needing three or four 40-amp double-pole breakers and often a 200-amp service upgrade. But it only draws that while water is actually flowing -- roughly 30 minutes of real hot-water draw a", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_tankless-electric-water-heater_0", "text": "The wattage looks alarming because it is. A whole-house electric tankless unit draws 18,000 to 36,000 W, typically requiring three or four 40-amp double-pole breakers and often a 200-amp service upgrade to feed them. This is not a peak-versus-running distinction of the kind that inflates published refrigerator figures. When the unit is heating at full output it really is pulling 24 kW or more, which is more instantaneous draw than everything else in a typical house combined. What rescues the number is duty cycle.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/tankless-electric-water-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Tankless Electric Water Heater Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_tankless-electric-water-heater_1", "text": "Watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. At 24,000 W over 0.3 hours: 24,000 × 0.3 = 7,200 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 7.2 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4 days, that is 218.9 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh, 218.9 × $0.1844 is about $40.36 a month , or roughly $484 a year. The right way to run the range is on hours, not on wattage, because hours is what your household actually changes.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/tankless-electric-water-heater/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Tankless Electric Water Heater Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_tankless-electric-water-heater_2", "text": "Energy into water is set by two things only: how many gallons you heat, and how many degrees you raise them. Everything below is one of those two wearing a different hat. Incoming groundwater temperature. The largest seasonal and regional driver. Raising water from 40°F to 120°F takes twice the energy of raising it from 80°F to 120°F. The same shower genuinely costs about twice as much in a northern February as on the Gulf Coast in August. 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One horsepower and larger submersible pumps reach about 2,000 W running, and every one of them draws a starting surge several times that figure for a fraction of a second as the motor overcomes inertia. That surge, called inrush or locked-rotor current, is what makes lights flicker when the pump kicks in. It lasts too briefly to add meaningfully to kilowatt-hours, but it matters for a different reason covered below.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/well-pump/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Well Pump Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_well-pump_1", "text": "Watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. At 800 W over 1.5 hours: 800 × 1.5 = 1,200 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 1.2 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4 days, that is 36.5 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh, 36.5 × $0.1844 comes to about $6.73 a month , or roughly $81 a year. That is 22 cents a day to pressurise an entire household's water supply, which is one of the better bargains in a house. Run the ends of the range.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/well-pump/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Well Pump Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_well-pump_2", "text": "Six things move a well pump's consumption, and the first two dominate. Depth and lift. The physics is unavoidable: energy scales with how far the water is raised and how much of it you raise. A 400-foot well costs roughly four times a 100-foot well per gallon delivered. Nothing you do at the fixture changes that. Water used. Gallons is the other half of the equation. Two people use a fraction of what a family of five plus a garden uses. 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A legacy single-speed 1.5 HP pump draws 1,500 to 2,000 W and, run the customary eight hours a day, exceeds 4,000 kWh a year on its own, which is larger than most homes' air conditioning. A variable-speed pump running on low RPM draws 150 to 400 W and achieves the same daily turnover of the pool's water. Same pool, same clarity, roughly a quarter of the energy or better.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/pool-pump/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Pool Pump Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_pool-pump_1", "text": "Watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. At the blended 1,500 W over 4.5 hours: 1,500 × 4.5 = 6,750 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 6.75 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4 days, that is 205.2 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh, 205.2 × $0.1844 is about $37.84 a month . Against the survey's measured 2,384 kWh a year, the annual figure is about $440. Now split the two machines, because the blend hides the decision.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/pool-pump/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Pool Pump Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_pool-pump_2", "text": "Naming the drivers in order of size, because the order is not what most pool owners assume. Pump type and speed. Single-speed versus variable-speed, and on a variable-speed pump the RPM you choose. Because of the cube relationship, this dwarfs everything below it. Hours run. Linear, unlike speed. Doubling hours doubles energy; halving speed cuts it to an eighth. That asymmetry is the whole strategy. Head. The resistance the pump works against: pipe diameter, elbows, filter size and how dirty the filter is.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/pool-pump/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Pool Pump Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_hot_tub", "@type": "Product", "name": "Hot Tub / Spa", "description": "A hot tub's 4,000-6,000 W heater and 750-1,500 W jet pumps only run in bursts, so the meaningful figure is the blended average of holding 400 gallons at 102F against ambient losses. EIA RECS 2020 measured 484 kWh/year for hot tub pumps plus 1,479 kWh/year for hot tub heaters -- about 1,963 kWh/year ", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_hot-tub_0", "text": "A hot tub has two loads with very different personalities. The heater is a 4,000 to 6,000 W resistance element, and the jet pumps are 750 to 1,500 W each. Neither runs continuously. The heater fires in bursts whenever the water drifts below setpoint, and the jets run only while somebody is in the tub. There is also a small circulation pump and controller holding roughly 50 W around the clock on many models. Quoting the peak figure is therefore useless.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/hot-tub/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Hot Tub / Spa Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_hot-tub_1", "text": "Watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. At an effective 1,500 W over 3.6 hours: 1,500 × 3.6 = 5,400 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 5.4 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4 days, that is 164.2 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh, 164.2 × $0.1844 is about $30.28 a month . Against the survey's measured 1,963 kWh a year, the annual figure is about $362. Now price the parts, because the intuition is usually backwards. A 6,000 W heater firing for a solid hour uses 6 kWh, about $1.11 .", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/hot-tub/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Hot Tub / Spa Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_hot-tub_2", "text": "Heat loss from a body of hot water rises with the temperature difference between the water and the air around it, and with how much surface is exposed. Every driver below is one of those two. Cover condition. The largest single variable, and the one nobody inspects. Covers absorb water into their foam core over years, and saturated foam loses essentially all of its insulating value while getting heavy enough to be hard to lift. Ambient temperature and season. Holding 102°F water in 20°F air is a far larger job than holding it in 70°F air.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/hot-tub/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Hot Tub / Spa Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" } ], "relations": [ { "type": "RELATES_TO", "target": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetId": "e_kilowatt_hour", "targetName": "Kilowatt-hour", "confidence": "declared" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_television_led", "@type": "Product", "name": "Television (LED / LCD)", "description": "A 50-55 inch LED TV draws about 60 W in normal viewing, and DTE's chart puts a 65 inch LED near 640 W-hours per operating hour block. DOE's older table lists 120 W for 'flat screen,' which reflects the plasma and CCFL-backlight era and now overstates a modern set roughly twofold -- a useful example ", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_television-led_0", "text": "A 50 to 55 inch LED television draws about 60 W in normal viewing. That is measured running draw, not a nameplate figure, and for a modern set the two are closer together than they are for anything with a motor or a heating element. A television has no compressor to surge and no element to cycle; it lights a backlight and runs a processor. The published tables genuinely disagree, and it is worth setting them side by side rather than picking one.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/television-led/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Television (LED / LCD) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_television-led_1", "text": "Watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. At 60 W over 5 hours, which is roughly what a single set averages: 60 × 5 = 300 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 0.3 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4 days, that is 9.1 kWh per month . At 18.44 cents per kWh, 9.1 × $0.1844 comes to about $1.68 a month , or roughly $20 a year. Per hour of viewing it is about a tenth of a cent. Run the ends. A 32 inch set at 30 W gives 0.15 kWh a day, 4.56 kWh a month, about 84 cents .", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/television-led/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Television (LED / LCD) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_television-led_2", "text": "Four things move a television's draw, and the order surprises people. Picture preset. The largest controllable factor. Showroom modes named Vivid, Dynamic or Standard-plus run the backlight at or near maximum so the set looks bright under fluorescent retail lighting. Filmmaker and Cinema modes run it far lower. Same content, same panel, up to double the power. Screen area. Roughly proportional, which is what takes a 32 inch set from 30 W to a 75 inch set at 200 W. Diagonal inches are misleading; area is what is being lit. 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A docked Nintendo Switch is nearer 10 to 18 W , an order of magnitude below, because it is a handheld chip in a dock rather than a desktop-class graphics processor. Older hardware ran hotter than either: Southern California Edison's appliance list shows PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era units at 215 to 400 W , which is a reminder that console power has fallen even as performance has risen. Nameplate is not the number here.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/gaming-console/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Gaming Console Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_gaming-console_1", "text": "Watts multiplied by hours of actual running, divided by 1,000, gives kilowatt-hours per day. Gameplay first. At 160 W over 2 hours: 160 × 2 = 320 watt-hours, divided by 1,000 is 0.32 kWh per day . Multiplied by 30.4 days, that is 9.7 kWh per month , which at 18.44 cents per kWh is about $1.79 a month , or roughly $22 a year. Now standby. At 12 W across the other 22 hours: 12 × 22 = 264 watt-hours, or 0.264 kWh per day , which is 8.03 kWh a month, about $1.48 .", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/gaming-console/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Gaming Console Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_gaming-console_2", "text": "The drivers, in the order they matter. Standby setting. Rest Mode or Instant-On against full shutdown is the difference between roughly 105 kWh a year of idle draw and almost none. Nothing else on this list is close. Generation. A current console at 150 to 200 W, a docked Switch at 10 to 18 W, and a PS3 or Xbox 360 era unit at 215 to 400 W are three different appliances. What you are doing on it. 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The figure stamped on a desktop's power supply — 650 W , 750 W , 1,000 W — is the maximum the unit can deliver, not what the machine pulls from the wall. It is a ceiling, sized with headroom so the supply never runs at its limit. Reading it as consumption is the single most common mistake made about this appliance, and it inflates people's estimates by a factor of four or five. The measured picture is calmer.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/desktop-computer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Desktop Computer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_desktop-computer_1", "text": "The arithmetic is watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For a desktop: 150 W × 6 hours = 900 watt-hours, which is 0.9 kWh a day . Multiply by 30.4 days and you get 27.4 kWh a month . At the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 27.4 × $0.1844 comes to about $5.05 a month , or roughly $60.63 a year. Per hour of use, about 2.8 cents. The ends of the range move that a long way. A small, efficient desktop at 60 W over the same six hours is 10.9 kWh a month, about $2.02.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/desktop-computer/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Desktop Computer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_desktop-computer_2", "text": "Almost all the variation in this category comes from what is inside the case and what the machine is being asked to do, not from brand or age alone. Discrete graphics. The largest single factor. A GPU under load can draw more than the rest of the computer combined, which is why the range here runs from 60 W to 600 W. What the machine is doing. Idle at a desktop, a tower may sit near 30 to 60 W. Compiling code, encoding video, playing a modern title or running a model pushes it to its ceiling. 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A 65 W or 96 W USB-C charger states what it is capable of delivering, and it only delivers that much while the battery is genuinely charging — which is a fraction of the day. Once the battery is full, the machine draws only what it needs to run, and a laptop browsing the web, writing email or sitting in a video call settles at 10 to 25 W . Averaged across a working day, DOE lists 50 W for a laptop, and DTE's chart puts one at 100 watt-hours per operating block.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/laptop/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Laptop Computer Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_laptop_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For a laptop: 50 W × 6 hours = 300 watt-hours, which is 0.3 kWh a day . Over a 30.4-day month that is 9.1 kWh , and at the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 9.1 × $0.1844 is about $1.68 a month — roughly $20.14 a year, or a little over five cents a day. 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The low end is a bare wireless router; the high end is a combined modem-router gateway from an internet provider, or a multi-node mesh system where every node is its own small load. Eight watts is a fair typical figure for a single modern unit. What makes this appliance interesting is not the wattage. It is the runtime . A router has no duty cycle at all — no thermostat, no compressor, no idle state anyone uses.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/wifi-router/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a WiFi Router / Modem Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_wifi-router_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For a router: 8 W × 24 hours = 192 watt-hours, or 0.192 kWh a day . Across a 30.4-day month that is 5.8 kWh , and at the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 5.8 × $0.1844 comes to about $1.07 a month . Annually: 8 W × 8,760 hours = 70.1 kWh, roughly $12.92 a year . 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A modern fast charger can hit 20 to 45 W , but only for the first 20 to 30 minutes of a charge — the window when the battery is deeply discharged and will accept power quickly. After that, the phone tapers deliberately to protect the cells, and draw collapses to under a watt long before the battery reads full. This is why the number printed on the charger tells you so little. A 45 W brick is a delivery ceiling, reached briefly and rarely.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/phone-charger/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Phone Charger Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_phone-charger_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For a charger: 5 W × 3 hours = 15 watt-hours, or 0.015 kWh a day . Over 30.4 days that is 0.5 kWh a month , and at the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, that is about 8 cents a month . For the year: roughly 5.5 kWh, or about $1.01 . One dollar. That is the total annual cost of charging a phone at average US rates. Even in the most expensive states, where electricity runs two to three times the national average, it does not clear four dollars. Per charge, the numbers stop being meaningful in dollars.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/phone-charger/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Phone Charger Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_phone-charger_2", "text": "There is less variation here than in any other category on this site, but the factors are worth naming because they are the ones people misjudge. Battery size. A large phone or a tablet holds more energy and takes more to fill. A tablet can use several times what a phone does — still measured in cents a year. How flat you let it get. Charging from 10 percent moves more energy than topping up from 80. This is the only genuine usage variable. Fast charging. 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Bulbs in this class run from about 5 W for a dimmer 450-lumen bulb up to 15 W for a brighter 1,100 or 1,600-lumen equivalent. Lumens are the unit of light output; watts are the unit of electricity consumed. Those two things used to move together, which is why people learned to shop by watts, and they no longer do. The usage assumption matters as much as the wattage.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/led-light-bulb/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a LED Light Bulb Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_led-light-bulb_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For one LED: 9 W × 3 hours = 27 watt-hours, or 0.027 kWh a day . Over a 30.4-day month that is 0.8 kWh , which at the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh is about 15 cents a month . For a full year: 9.85 kWh, or roughly $1.82 per bulb . Across the range, a 5 W bulb costs about $1.01 a year and a 15 W bulb about $3.03. Running one continuously — a porch light left on 24 hours a day — is 9 W × 24 = 0.216 kWh a day, 78.8 kWh a year, about $14.53 . The comparison that pays for the bulb is with what it replaced.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/led-light-bulb/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a LED Light Bulb Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_led-light-bulb_2", "text": "Brightness and hours are the whole story for an ordinary bulb; everything else is a detail. Lumens. More light costs more electricity. A 1,600-lumen bulb draws roughly twice a 450-lumen one. This is the factor to think about at purchase. Hours in the fixture. A hallway bulb and a kitchen bulb of identical rating can differ tenfold in annual cost purely by position in the house. Season. Lighting hours are strongly seasonal — long dark evenings in December, long light ones in June. 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A quick fifteen-minute pass over the main rooms costs five cents.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/vacuum-cleaner/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Vacuum Cleaner Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_vacuum-cleaner_2", "text": "Runtime dominates, and runtime is mostly a function of how well the machine works rather than how big the house is. Minutes of actual suction. The entire cost, essentially. Everything below is a way of changing this number. Airway condition. A full bin, a clogged filter or a blocked hose drops suction, and the practical consequence is that you go over the same carpet two or three times. That doubles or triples runtime, and with it the cost. 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The span is wide: from 16 A (3,800 W) at the small end up to 80 A (19,200 W) at the largest residential installations. The most common home install is 32 A on a 40 A circuit, about 7,200 W , which is the figure used here. Now the point that makes this appliance unlike every other one on the site. The hours are set by how far you drive, not by the charger's size. A bigger charger does not use more energy; it just finishes sooner.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/ev-charger-level-2/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Vehicle Charger (Level 2) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_ev-charger-level-2_1", "text": "Watts × hours ÷ 1,000 = kWh per day. For the typical install: 7,200 W × 1 hour = 7.2 kWh a day . Over a 30.4-day month that is 218.9 kWh , and at the US average rate of 18.44 cents per kWh, 218.9 × $0.1844 is about $40.36 a month , or roughly $484 a year for about 2,630 kWh. The two competing annual figures bracket that. At EIA's 2,363 kWh a year, the cost is about $435.75 , or $36.31 a month. At the 12,000-mile calculation's roughly 3,430 kWh, it is about $632 a year, or $52.68 a month.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/appliances/ev-charger-level-2/", "pageTitle": "How Much Electricity Does a Electric Vehicle Charger (Level 2) Use?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "reference" }, { "chunkId": "c_ev-charger-level-2_2", "text": "This is the appliance with the widest spread on the site, and the drivers are unusually clean. Miles driven. The dominant term by a wide margin, and effectively the only one that scales without limit. Double your mileage and you double the energy. Vehicle efficiency. Miles per kWh varies substantially between a small sedan and a large electric truck. At a fixed mileage this can change the annual number by a factor approaching two. 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The first is the service address and account number — worth checking once a year, because a meter mapped to the wrong unit in a duplex or a small apartment building is not a rare error, and it can persist for years until somebody compares a bill to a floor plan. The second is the service period : the two dates that bracket the days you are being billed for. This is not the calendar month.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-read-your-electric-bill/", "pageTitle": "How to Read Your Electric Bill", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_how-to-read-your-electric-bill_1", "text": "Below the account block, most bills show the meter itself: the previous reading, the current reading, a multiplier in some cases, and the difference between the two. The difference is your consumption. Two small letters near those numbers decide whether the bill in your hand is a measurement or a guess. Actual read (often marked A) — somebody or something physically read the register. With a smart meter this happens automatically and daily; with an older mechanical meter it means a person walked the route.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-read-your-electric-bill/", "pageTitle": "How to Read Your Electric Bill", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_how-to-read-your-electric-bill_2", "text": "The unit on your bill is the kilowatt-hour (kWh) : one kilowatt of demand sustained for one hour. A 100-watt device left on for ten hours consumes one kWh. Every charge that scales with your consumption is calculated from this single figure. For scale, the average US household used about 863 kWh a month in 2024, though the spread between states is enormous and driven mostly by climate and heating fuel. Here is the comparison trap. Billing periods are not equal in length.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-read-your-electric-bill/", "pageTitle": "How to Read Your Electric Bill", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_guide_supply_vs_delivery_charges", "@type": "Article", "name": "Supply vs. Delivery Charges on Your Electric Bill", "description": "Why your electric bill splits into supply and delivery, which half you can shop, and why a low advertised rate saves far less than it appears to.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_supply-vs-delivery-charges_0", "text": "Open a residential electric bill in most of the country and the charges fall into two blocks. One is labelled supply , or generation, or energy charge, or basic service. The other is labelled delivery , or transmission and distribution, or delivery services. They are added together, taxed together, and paid with one payment, which is why so many people read them as one price. They are not one price.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/supply-vs-delivery-charges/", "pageTitle": "Supply vs. Delivery Charges on Your Electric Bill", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_supply-vs-delivery-charges_1", "text": "The supply charge pays for producing electricity and putting it onto the grid. Concretely, that means fuel — gas, coal, uranium, or nothing at all in the case of wind, solar and hydro; the operation and maintenance of generating plants; purchases on the wholesale market when a supplier's own output falls short of its customers' demand; and the hedges and forward contracts a supplier uses to avoid being exposed to hourly wholesale prices. Supply is a commodity, and it behaves like one.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/supply-vs-delivery-charges/", "pageTitle": "Supply vs. Delivery Charges on Your Electric Bill", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_supply-vs-delivery-charges_2", "text": "The delivery charge pays the wires company to move electricity to your meter, regardless of who generated it. It is the physical plant and the people who keep it standing: Transmission — the high-voltage lines and substations that carry bulk power across a region from generators to load centres. Distribution — the local network: the poles, transformers, underground cables and service drops that step voltage down and feed individual streets and homes.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/supply-vs-delivery-charges/", "pageTitle": "Supply vs. Delivery Charges on Your Electric Bill", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_guide_what_is_a_time_of_use_rate", "@type": "Article", "name": "What Is a Time-of-Use Rate?", "description": "Time-of-use electricity pricing explained: peak and off-peak windows, seasonal shifts, who saves, who loses, and how to check before you switch.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_what-is-a-time-of-use-rate_0", "text": "A flat rate charges the same price per kilowatt-hour at three in the morning and at six in the evening. A time-of-use rate (TOU) does not: it divides the day into pricing periods and charges a different price in each. Run the dryer at midnight and it costs one amount. Run it at seven in the evening and it costs considerably more. The logic is that electricity genuinely costs more to supply at some hours than others. Power cannot be stored at scale on most grids, so supply must match demand instant by instant.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/what-is-a-time-of-use-rate/", "pageTitle": "What Is a Time-of-Use Rate?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_what-is-a-time-of-use-rate_1", "text": "Most TOU schedules use two or three periods: Peak (sometimes on-peak) — the most expensive block, covering the hours when system demand is highest. Typically a window of several hours, often late afternoon into evening on weekdays. Off-peak — everything outside the peak window, priced lower, and usually covering the large majority of hours in the week.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/what-is-a-time-of-use-rate/", "pageTitle": "What Is a Time-of-Use Rate?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_what-is-a-time-of-use-rate_2", "text": "A TOU schedule is rarely the same all year, because the grid's stress point moves with the weather. Utilities typically define a summer season and a winter season , each with its own peak hours and its own prices, and the boundaries between seasons are set in the tariff rather than by the calendar. Two things change between seasons.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/what-is-a-time-of-use-rate/", "pageTitle": "What Is a Time-of-Use Rate?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_guide_why_is_my_electric_bill_so_high", "@type": "Article", "name": "Why Is My Electric Bill So High?", "description": "A step-by-step diagnosis of a high electric bill: billing days, estimated reads, rate changes, weather, new loads, failing appliances and real errors.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_why-is-my-electric-bill-so-high_0", "text": "Before you look at anything else, find the service period on the bill — the two dates the charges cover — and count the days. Then count the days on the bill before it. Utility billing cycles are not calendar months. They run from one meter read to the next, and a read can slip by several days because of a weekend, a holiday, a route change, or weather that kept a meter reader off the street. A 34-day cycle following a 27-day cycle contains 26 percent more consumption at identical habits.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/why-is-my-electric-bill-so-high/", "pageTitle": "Why Is My Electric Bill So High?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_why-is-my-electric-bill-so-high_1", "text": "The second question is whether the reading is real. Utilities that still send a human to the meter, or that have a meter behind a locked gate or a dog, will sometimes issue an estimated read — a bill calculated from your usage history rather than from the dial. Estimates are usually marked on the bill with a code such as E or EST beside the reading, against A or ACT for an actual read. The legend explaining those codes is normally on the back or in the fine print. An estimate is not a problem by itself. The problem is the correction.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/why-is-my-electric-bill-so-high/", "pageTitle": "Why Is My Electric Bill So High?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_why-is-my-electric-bill-so-high_2", "text": "Usage and price are different variables, and a bill can rise on price alone. Work out what you actually paid per kilowatt-hour on each of the two bills: divide the total amount by the kilowatt-hours used. That blended figure includes fixed charges, so it is not the tariff rate, but comparing it across two bills tells you instantly whether the price moved or the consumption did. 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A landline bill is among the strongest documents in this category precisely because the number is tied to the premises.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/what-counts-as-a-utility-bill/", "pageTitle": "What Counts as a Utility Bill?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_what-counts-as-a-utility-bill_2", "text": "An institution asking for a utility bill is not interested in the utility. It is running four checks, and any document that satisfies all four will usually pass, while a document that fails one will be rejected no matter how obviously a utility bill it is. Your full legal name , spelled as it appears on the application. Initials, a maiden name, a missing middle name or a nickname on the account will cause a rejection, and the person reviewing it has no authority to make the judgment call.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/what-counts-as-a-utility-bill/", "pageTitle": "What Counts as a Utility Bill?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_guide_how_to_read_your_water_meter", "@type": "Article", "name": "How to Read Your Water Meter (and Find a Leak)", "description": "Find your water meter, read either dial type, convert cubic feet to CCF and gallons, and run the two-hour test that proves whether you have a leak.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_how-to-read-your-water-meter_0", "text": "Where the meter sits depends almost entirely on whether the ground freezes. In warm regions it is outdoors, at or near the property line, in a curb box — a buried chamber with a cast iron or plastic lid set flush with the ground, typically in the lawn strip between the pavement and the street, or in the front garden near the footpath. The lid is round or rectangular, roughly the size of a dinner plate, and usually cast with the word WATER.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-read-your-water-meter/", "pageTitle": "How to Read Your Water Meter (and Find a Leak)", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_how-to-read-your-water-meter_1", "text": "An outdoor curb box lid is heavier than it looks and it is a closed, dark, damp chamber. Take a few precautions. Lift with a tool, not fingers. Most lids have a small notch or a pentagon bolt; a large flathead screwdriver, a pry bar or a purpose-made meter key hooks into it. Prise the lid up and slide it aside rather than lifting it out over your hands, and keep fingers off the rim as it comes down. Look before you reach. Curb boxes attract spiders, wasps, ants and, in warm climates, snakes.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-read-your-water-meter/", "pageTitle": "How to Read Your Water Meter (and Find a Leak)", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_how-to-read-your-water-meter_2", "text": "Almost every residential meter uses one of two registers, and they are read differently. Straight-reading (odometer) register This is the common modern type and it looks like a car odometer: a row of numbered wheels behind a window, sometimes with a separate sweep hand on the face. Read the numbers left to right, exactly as printed.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-read-your-water-meter/", "pageTitle": "How to Read Your Water Meter (and Find a Leak)", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_guide_budget_billing_explained", "@type": "Article", "name": "Budget Billing: Is It Worth It?", "description": "How budget billing works, how the monthly amount is set, why the true-up surprises people, who it genuinely helps, and the one real risk it creates.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_budget-billing-explained_0", "text": "Budget billing — also sold as levelized billing, average billing, equal payment plan or balanced billing, depending on the utility — charges you a fixed amount each month instead of the amount you actually used. In January, when an electrically heated house consumes far more than average, you pay the fixed amount and the utility carries the shortfall. In May, when the house needs almost nothing, you pay the same fixed amount and the surplus works the balance back down.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/budget-billing-explained/", "pageTitle": "Budget Billing: Is It Worth It?", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_budget-billing-explained_1", "text": "The mechanics are simple and worth knowing, because they explain every surprise that follows. Most utilities take your consumption over a rolling period — usually the last 12 months at your address — average it, and multiply by current rates to produce a monthly figure. Some add a small buffer, some round up, and some apply a forecast adjustment if a rate change has been approved for the coming year. Two consequences follow immediately. 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That arrangement is called vertical integration , and it exists for an unglamorous reason: stringing a second set of distribution wires down the same street so two companies could compete would waste far more than the competition could recover. A monopoly is the efficient answer to that problem.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/deregulated-vs-regulated-electricity/", "pageTitle": "Deregulated vs. Regulated Electricity, Explained", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_deregulated-vs-regulated-electricity_1", "text": "Beginning in the late 1990s, roughly a quarter of US jurisdictions restructured. The word people use is “deregulation,” which causes real confusion, because nothing was deregulated in the sense of regulation being removed. What happened was unbundling : the vertically integrated business was cut into pieces, and exactly one piece was opened to competition. That piece is supply — the electricity itself, the energy measured in kilowatt-hours, which competing retailers buy in wholesale markets and sell to households under contracts they set.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/deregulated-vs-regulated-electricity/", "pageTitle": "Deregulated vs. Regulated Electricity, Explained", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_deregulated-vs-regulated-electricity_2", "text": "Retail choice gives you one thing: the right to buy the supply portion of your electricity from someone other than the incumbent utility, at a price the two of you agree on rather than one the commission sets. That is genuinely valuable and genuinely limited. Switching cannot reduce your delivery charge, transmission surcharge, taxes or legislated riders; those are fixed by regulation and follow you to whichever supplier you pick.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/deregulated-vs-regulated-electricity/", "pageTitle": "Deregulated vs. Regulated Electricity, Explained", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" } ] }, { "entityId": "e_guide_how_to_split_bills_with_roommates", "@type": "Article", "name": "How to Split Bills With Roommates Fairly", "description": "Three fair ways to split utilities with roommates, prorating a mid-month move, whose name belongs on the account, and how to split a restaurant bill.", "hasChunks": [ { "chunkId": "c_how-to-split-bills-with-roommates_0", "text": "Every workable arrangement is a version of one of three rules. Each is fair in some households and unfair in others, and knowing which you are in is most of the work. 1. Even split — total divided by the number of people Its virtue is that it is unarguable: no formula to relitigate, no square footage to measure, no schedule to audit. Where bedrooms are broadly comparable and everyone works similar hours, an even split is not a compromise; it is the correct answer, and the cheapest to administer. 2.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-split-bills-with-roommates/", "pageTitle": "How to Split Bills With Roommates Fairly", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_how-to-split-bills-with-roommates_1", "text": "Rent almost never causes disputes. It is fixed, known before anyone signs, identical every month, and impossible to attribute to any individual's behaviour. Nobody can accuse anyone of using too much rent. Utilities are the opposite on all four counts. They are variable, so the number changes without anyone deciding anything. They are retrospective, arriving weeks after the behaviour that caused them, when nobody remembers the week the heating stayed on.", "sourceUrl": "https://bill.ninja/guides/how-to-split-bills-with-roommates/", "pageTitle": "How to Split Bills With Roommates Fairly", "publisher": "bill.ninja", "contentType": "guide" }, { "chunkId": "c_how-to-split-bills-with-roommates_2", "text": "This is the most common genuine imbalance, and most households handle it badly — either pretending it does not exist or overcorrecting into surveillance. Start with the honest physics. One additional person at home during the day adds very little in devices. 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