Space Heater Electricity Cost

Electricity usage of a space heater.

Space heater electricity cost.

Electric space heaters provide heat quickly and because they run on household electricity you never have to buy fuel for them. So if you have a 500w unit that s 1 2 or 0 5 of a kilowatt. Probably the most important number to know is the heaters power rating in watts. If yours is 10 cents per kilowatt hour that s 15 cents per hour.

Well this is just an instance. To calculate the cost of operating a 1500 watt infrared heater will require the electricity cost of your residential area. Space heaters are portable electric devices used for heating up a single room or an area of the house. The electric space heaters tested at consumer reports use 1 500 watts to fully power.

Click calculate to find the energy consumption of a space heater using 1500. If you run your space heater for 10 hours in a day that s 1 5 daily which works out to be 67 5 a month. This is how much electricity your space heater uses in an hour. Since you should never use a space heater while sleeping it would cost 2 82 a day to use a space heater 16.

Convection space heaters heat up a room by heating up the air most common convection space heaters will use around 1500 watts. Dividing by 1 000 changes watt hours to kilowatt hours in this case it will cost 7 20 if.