What an electric stove and oven costs to run in Georgia

What an electric stove and oven costs here

Across 4 plans priced in Georgia, an electric stove and oven adds $25.80 to $50.00 a year — $2.15 to $4.17 a month. The median plan puts an electric stove and oven at $43.92 a year.

Cheapest for an electric stove and oven: SCHEDULE TOU-RD-11 RESIDENTIAL DEMAND SERVICE, Georgia Power Co. Dearest: SCHEDULE R-30 RESIDENTIAL SERVICE, Georgia Power Co.

Those 309 kWh are billed at 8.4¢–16.2¢, 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 1.3¢ per kWh.

What Georgia homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 309 kWh a year across 297 sampled homes that run one, near the national 290 kWh. The middle half spans 145 kWh to 389 kWh, so an electric stove and oven varies by 244 kWh between one household and another.

The cooktop and oven together. Microwaves are counted separately. That average covers homes that cook with electricity — 71% of homes here.

That makes an electric stove and oven about 2% of the electricity a Georgia home uses. The remaining 12,962 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 145 kWh a year and pays $12.17 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 389 kWh and pays $32.51 — $20.34 more for an electric stove and oven 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.