What a separate freezer costs to run in Georgia

What a separate freezer costs here

Across 4 plans priced in Georgia, a separate freezer adds $50.96 to $98.84 a year — $4.25 to $8.24 a month. The median plan puts a separate freezer at $86.83 a year.

Cheapest for a separate freezer: SCHEDULE TOU-RD-11 RESIDENTIAL DEMAND SERVICE, Georgia Power Co. Dearest: SCHEDULE R-30 RESIDENTIAL SERVICE, Georgia Power Co.

Those 610 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 610 kWh a year across 148 sampled homes that run one, near the national 570 kWh. The middle half spans 397 kWh to 760 kWh, so a separate freezer varies by 362 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 — 35% of homes here.

That makes a separate freezer about 5% of the electricity a Georgia home uses. The remaining 12,660 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 397 kWh a year and pays $33.20 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 760 kWh and pays $63.51 — $30.31 more for a separate freezer 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.