What a dehumidifier costs to run in Ohio

What a dehumidifier costs here

Across 3 plans priced in Ohio, a dehumidifier adds $84.19 to $117.84 a year — $7.02 to $9.82 a month. The median plan puts a dehumidifier at $100.08 a year.

Cheapest for a dehumidifier: Residential, City of Cleveland, Ohio (Utility Company). Dearest: Residential (KW10), City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company).

Those 1,195 kWh are billed at 7.0¢–9.9¢, against a 9.6¢ whole-bill average on the median plan: they land in the last tier the household reaches, so the average rate understates them by up to 0.2¢ per kWh.

What Ohio homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 1,195 kWh a year across 108 sampled homes that run one, 1.20× the national 999 kWh. The middle half spans 398 kWh to 1,852 kWh, so a dehumidifier varies by 1,455 kWh between one household and another.

Portable and whole-home dehumidifiers. That average covers homes with a dehumidifier — 30% of homes here, against 17% nationally.

That makes a dehumidifier about 12% of the electricity an Ohio home uses. The remaining 9,083 kWh is what a dehumidifier is billed on top of, and on a tiered or time-of-use plan that is what sets the rate it meets.

By provider

On each Ohio provider's cheapest plan: City of Cleveland, Ohio (Utility Company), $84.19; City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company), $100.08.

City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company) charges $15.89 a year more than City of Cleveland, Ohio (Utility Company) on Residential for the same 1,195 kWh.

Light and heavy use of a dehumidifier

A household in the lighter quarter runs a dehumidifier for 398 kWh a year and pays $27.99 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 1,852 kWh and pays $130.47 — $102.48 more for a dehumidifier on the same tariff.

Limits

A 2020 survey average for Ohio, not a measurement of any one home, priced against the 3 Ohio tariffs WattClear has ingested — not every plan sold there.