What an electric stove and oven costs to run in Colorado

What an electric stove and oven costs here

Across 5 plans priced in Colorado, an electric stove and oven adds $21.18 to $46.76 a year — $1.76 to $3.90 a month. The median plan puts an electric stove and oven at $43.94 a year.

Cheapest for an electric stove and oven: Residential Demand - Time Differentiated Rates (Schedule RD-TDR), Public Service Co of Colorado. Dearest: Residential General Service Opt-Out (Schedule R-OO), Public Service Co of Colorado.

Those 286 kWh are billed at 7.4¢–16.3¢, against a 16.6¢ whole-bill average on the median plan, so on these plans the two rates are close.

What Colorado homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 286 kWh a year across 261 sampled homes that run one, near the national 290 kWh. The middle half spans 139 kWh to 373 kWh, so an electric stove and oven varies by 235 kWh between one household and another.

The cooktop and oven together. Microwaves are counted separately. That average covers homes that cook with electricity — 73% of homes here, against 65% nationally.

That makes an electric stove and oven about 4% of the electricity a Colorado home uses. The remaining 7,858 kWh is what an electric stove and oven 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 an electric stove and oven

A household in the lighter quarter runs an electric stove and oven for 139 kWh a year and pays $10.23 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 373 kWh and pays $27.70 — $17.47 more for an electric stove and oven on the same tariff.

Limits

A 2020 survey average for Colorado, not a measurement of any one home, priced against the 5 Colorado tariffs WattClear has ingested — not every plan sold there.