What a pool pump costs to run in Georgia

What a pool pump costs here

Across 4 plans priced in Georgia, a pool pump adds $258.90 to $498.64 a year — $21.58 to $41.55 a month. The median plan puts a pool pump at $441.20 a year.

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

Those 3,100 kWh are billed at 8.4¢–16.1¢, 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 1.2¢ per kWh.

What Georgia homes use

EIA's 2020 residential survey found 3,100 kWh a year across 32 sampled homes that run one, 1.30× the national 2,384 kWh. The middle half spans 1,475 kWh to 4,068 kWh, so a pool pump varies by 2,593 kWh between one household and another.

The circulation pump and its filtration cycle. Pool heating is not included. That average covers homes with a pool pump — 7% of homes here.

That makes a pool pump about 23% of the electricity a Georgia home uses. The remaining 10,170 kWh is what a pool pump 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 pool pump

A household in the lighter quarter runs a pool pump for 1,475 kWh a year and pays $123.18 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 4,068 kWh and pays $339.70 — $216.52 more for a pool pump 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.