What a dishwasher costs to run in Ohio

What a dishwasher costs here

Across 3 plans priced in Ohio, a dishwasher adds $8.04 to $11.28 a year — $0.67 to $0.94 a month. The median plan puts a dishwasher at $9.60 a year.

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

Those 114 kWh are billed at 7.1¢–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 0.3¢ per kWh.

What Ohio homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 114 kWh a year across 228 sampled homes that run one, near the national 112 kWh. The middle half spans 41 kWh to 169 kWh, so a dishwasher varies by 127 kWh between one household and another.

The dishwasher's motor, controls and internal heater, including the heated dry cycle where one is used. That average covers homes with a dishwasher — 63% of homes here.

That makes a dishwasher about 1% of the electricity an Ohio home uses. The remaining 10,165 kWh is what a dishwasher 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), $8.04; City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company), $9.60.

City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company) charges $1.56 a year more than City of Cleveland, Ohio (Utility Company) on Residential for the same 114 kWh.

Light and heavy use of a dishwasher

A household in the lighter quarter runs a dishwasher for 41 kWh a year and pays $2.96 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 169 kWh and pays $11.89 — $8.93 more for a dishwasher 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.