What TVs and streaming devices costs to run in Colorado

What TVs and streaming devices costs here

Across 5 plans priced in Colorado, TVs and streaming devices adds $44.20 to $97.52 a year — $3.68 to $8.13 a month. The median plan puts TVs and streaming devices at $91.61 a year.

Cheapest for TVs and streaming devices: 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 597 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 597 kWh a year across 349 sampled homes that run one, near the national 632 kWh. The middle half spans 266 kWh to 801 kWh, so TVs and streaming devices varies by 535 kWh between one household and another.

Televisions plus the set-top boxes, streaming sticks, game consoles and sound bars attached to them, in use and on standby. That average covers homes with a television — 96% of homes here.

That makes TVs and streaming devices about 7% of the electricity a Colorado home uses. The remaining 7,547 kWh is what TVs and streaming devices 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 TVs and streaming devices

A household in the lighter quarter runs TVs and streaming devices for 266 kWh a year and pays $19.81 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 801 kWh and pays $59.42 — $39.61 more for TVs and streaming devices 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.