What a separate freezer costs to run in Ohio

What a separate freezer costs here

Across 3 plans priced in Ohio, a separate freezer adds $35.19 to $49.32 a year — $2.93 to $4.11 a month. The median plan puts a separate freezer at $41.88 a year.

Cheapest for a separate freezer: Residential, City of Cleveland, Ohio (Utility Company). Dearest: Residential (KW10), City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company).

Those 500 kWh are billed at 7.0¢–9.9¢, against a 9.6¢ 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 0.3¢ per kWh.

What Ohio homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 500 kWh a year across 139 sampled homes that run one, near the national 570 kWh. The middle half spans 318 kWh to 634 kWh, so a separate freezer varies by 317 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 — 40% of homes here.

That makes a separate freezer about 5% of the electricity an Ohio home uses. The remaining 9,779 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.

By provider

On each Ohio provider's cheapest plan: City of Cleveland, Ohio (Utility Company), $35.19; City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company), $41.88.

City of Columbus, Ohio (Utility Company) charges $6.69 a year more than City of Cleveland, Ohio (Utility Company) on Residential for the same 500 kWh.

Light and heavy use of a separate freezer

A household in the lighter quarter runs a separate freezer for 318 kWh a year and pays $22.36 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 634 kWh and pays $44.67 — $22.31 more for a separate freezer on the same tariff.

Limits

A 2020 survey average for Ohio, not a measurement of any one home, priced against the 3 Ohio tariffs WattClear has ingested — not every plan sold there.