What TVs and streaming devices costs to run in Oregon

What TVs and streaming devices costs here

Across 8 plans priced in Oregon, TVs and streaming devices adds $64.96 to $110.04 a year — $5.41 to $9.17 a month. The median plan puts TVs and streaming devices at $97.56 a year.

Cheapest for TVs and streaming devices: Residential Time-Of-Use Service (Rate 7-TOU), Portland General Electric Co. Dearest: Residential Service (Rate 7), Portland General Electric Co.

Those 576 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 576 kWh a year across 296 sampled homes that run one, near the national 632 kWh. The middle half spans 263 kWh to 735 kWh, so TVs and streaming devices varies by 472 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 — 94% of homes here.

That makes TVs and streaming devices about 5% of the electricity an Oregon home uses. The remaining 10,556 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 263 kWh a year and pays $29.68 on the cheapest plan. One in the heavier quarter runs it for 735 kWh and pays $82.87 — $53.19 more for TVs and streaming devices 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.