The same appliance costs four times more in Hawaii than in Idaho. These pages price the appliances that actually move a bill against every state rate, so you get a figure that applies where you live rather than a national average that applies nowhere.
Pick your state in the calculator below and it recalculates for any wattage and any run time. The US average is [hed_var key=”us_rate_cents” format=”cents”] per kWh; state averages run from [hed_var key=”us_rate_low” format=”cents”] to [hed_var key=”us_rate_high” format=”cents”].
Why a national average is the wrong number
Averages are built by dividing total revenue by total sales across every household in the country. That makes them a fair ranking and a poor quote. A household in Idaho and a household in Hawaii running identical equipment on identical schedules see bills that differ by a factor of four, and no national figure captures either of them.
Climate compounds it. Cooling in Texas runs seven months; in Minnesota it runs eight weeks. Heating runs the other way. So the annual figure for an air conditioner or a heat pump depends as much on where you are as on what you own.
The appliances that matter
Twelve appliances account for most of the variance in a residential bill. Everything else is rounding.
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