What an electric stove and oven costs to run in Michigan

What an electric stove and oven costs here

Across 7 plans priced in Michigan, an electric stove and oven adds $34.92 to $61.20 a year — $2.91 to $5.10 a month. The median plan puts an electric stove and oven at $56.97 a year.

Cheapest for an electric stove and oven: Residential Service Secondary Non-Transmitting Meter Rate (RSM), Consumers Energy Co. Dearest: Residential Service Secondary Non-Transmitting Meter Rate (RSM), Consumers Energy Co.

Those 248 kWh are billed at 14.1¢–24.7¢, against a 24.2¢ 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 0.5¢ per kWh.

What Michigan homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 248 kWh a year across 217 sampled homes that run one, near the national 290 kWh. The middle half spans 122 kWh to 331 kWh, so an electric stove and oven varies by 209 kWh between one household and another.

The cooktop and oven together. Microwaves are counted separately. That average covers homes that cook with electricity — 57% of homes here, against 65% nationally.

That makes an electric stove and oven about 3% of the electricity a Michigan home uses. The remaining 8,122 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 122 kWh a year and pays $17.16 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 331 kWh and pays $46.68 — $29.52 more for an electric stove and oven 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.