What a separate freezer costs to run in Colorado

What a separate freezer costs here

Across 5 plans priced in Colorado, a separate freezer adds $39.55 to $87.28 a year — $3.30 to $7.27 a month. The median plan puts a separate freezer at $82.01 a year.

Cheapest for a separate freezer: 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 534 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 534 kWh a year across 125 sampled homes that run one, near the national 570 kWh. The middle half spans 353 kWh to 653 kWh, so a separate freezer varies by 300 kWh between one household and another.

A standalone chest or upright freezer, not the freezer compartment of a fridge. That average covers homes with a separate freezer — 32% of homes here.

That makes a separate freezer about 7% of the electricity a Colorado home uses. The remaining 7,610 kWh is what a separate freezer 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 a separate freezer

A household in the lighter quarter runs a separate freezer for 353 kWh a year and pays $26.13 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 653 kWh and pays $48.39 — $22.26 more for a separate freezer 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.