What a separate freezer costs to run in Oregon

What a separate freezer costs here

Across 8 plans priced in Oregon, a separate freezer adds $67.45 to $114.24 a year — $5.62 to $9.52 a month. The median plan puts a separate freezer at $101.28 a year.

Cheapest for a separate freezer: Residential Time-Of-Use Service (Rate 7-TOU), Portland General Electric Co. Dearest: Residential Service (Rate 7), Portland General Electric Co.

Those 598 kWh are billed at 11.3¢–19.1¢, against a 18.7¢ 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 0.4¢ per kWh.

What Oregon homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 598 kWh a year across 142 sampled homes that run one, near the national 570 kWh. The middle half spans 338 kWh to 712 kWh, so a separate freezer varies by 375 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 — 44% of homes here, against 33% nationally.

That makes a separate freezer about 5% of the electricity an Oregon home uses. The remaining 10,534 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 338 kWh a year and pays $38.12 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 712 kWh and pays $80.37 — $42.25 more for a separate freezer on the same tariff.

Limits

A 2020 survey average for Oregon, not a measurement of any one home, priced against the 8 Oregon tariffs WattClear has ingested — not every plan sold there.