What electric space heating costs to run in Michigan

What electric space heating costs here

Across 7 plans priced in Michigan, electric space heating adds $281.16 to $477.04 a year — $23.43 to $39.75 a month. The median plan puts electric space heating at $458.34 a year.

Cheapest for electric space heating: Residential Service Secondary Non-Transmitting Meter Rate (RSM), Consumers Energy Co. Dearest: Residential Service Secondary Non-Transmitting Meter Rate (RSM), Consumers Energy Co.

Those 1,997 kWh are billed at 14.1¢–23.9¢, against a 24.2¢ whole-bill average on the median plan, so on these plans the two rates are close.

What Michigan homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 1,997 kWh a year across 134 sampled homes that run one, 20% under the national 2,484 kWh. The middle half spans 262 kWh to 2,341 kWh, so electric space heating varies by 2,079 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 — 37% of homes here, against 52% nationally.

That makes electric space heating about 24% of the electricity a Michigan home uses. The remaining 6,373 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 262 kWh a year and pays $36.84 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 2,341 kWh and pays $329.64 — $292.80 more for electric space heating on the same tariff.

Limits

A 2020 survey average for Michigan, not a measurement of any one home, priced against the 7 Michigan tariffs WattClear has ingested — not every plan sold there.