What electric space heating costs to run in Georgia

What electric space heating costs here

Across 4 plans priced in Georgia, electric space heating adds $186.70 to $360.36 a year — $15.56 to $30.03 a month. The median plan puts electric space heating at $318.18 a year.

Cheapest for electric space heating: SCHEDULE TOU-RD-11 RESIDENTIAL DEMAND SERVICE, Georgia Power Co. Dearest: SCHEDULE R-30 RESIDENTIAL SERVICE, Georgia Power Co.

Those 2,236 kWh are billed at 8.4¢–16.1¢, against a 14.9¢ 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 1.2¢ per kWh.

What Georgia homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 2,236 kWh a year across 267 sampled homes that run one, near the national 2,484 kWh. The middle half spans 543 kWh to 3,215 kWh, so electric space heating varies by 2,673 kWh between one household and another.

All electricity used for space heating, including the furnace or heat-pump compressor and the air handler that moves the heat around the house. That average covers homes heated with electricity — 66% of homes here, against 52% nationally.

That makes electric space heating about 17% of the electricity a Georgia home uses. The remaining 11,035 kWh is what electric space heating is billed on top of, and on a tiered or time-of-use plan that is what sets the rate it meets.

Light and heavy use of electric space heating

A household in the lighter quarter runs electric space heating for 543 kWh a year and pays $45.28 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 3,215 kWh and pays $268.46 — $223.18 more for electric space heating on the same tariff.

Limits

A 2020 survey average for Georgia, not a measurement of any one home, priced against the 4 Georgia tariffs WattClear has ingested — not every plan sold there.