What TVs and streaming devices costs to run in Georgia

What TVs and streaming devices costs here

Across 4 plans priced in Georgia, TVs and streaming devices adds $64.49 to $125.04 a year — $5.37 to $10.42 a month. The median plan puts TVs and streaming devices at $109.86 a year.

Cheapest for TVs and streaming devices: SCHEDULE TOU-RD-11 RESIDENTIAL DEMAND SERVICE, Georgia Power Co. Dearest: SCHEDULE R-30 RESIDENTIAL SERVICE, Georgia Power Co.

Those 772 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 772 kWh a year across 410 sampled homes that run one, 1.22× the national 632 kWh. The middle half spans 308 kWh to 1,004 kWh, so TVs and streaming devices varies by 696 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 — 98% of homes here.

That makes TVs and streaming devices about 6% of the electricity a Georgia home uses. The remaining 12,498 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 308 kWh a year and pays $25.73 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 1,004 kWh and pays $83.78 — $58.05 more for TVs and streaming devices 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.