How much does a dehumidifier cost per month in Rhode Island?

About $12.68 a month, assuming 500 W at a 60% duty cycle, 12 hours a day, 150 days a year at 28.18¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does a dehumidifier use?

Roughly 540 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.30 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Rhode Island has the 7th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $98.06 a year.

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Cost to run a dehumidifier in Rhode Island (August 2026 rates)

At 28.18¢ per kilowatt-hour — Rhode Island's average residential price in August 2026 — running a dehumidifier costs $152 a year. That is 55% more than the national average of $98.06. Rhode Island's residential rate is up 6.2% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $143 to $152 a year.

Per hour: 8.5¢
Per day of use: $1.01
Per month: $12.68
Per year: $152

Assumption: 500 W at a 60% duty cycle, 12 hours a day, 150 days a year — 540 kWh a year. A 50-pint basement unit. Runtime is driven by humidity, not by a clock, so a damp basement can push the duty cycle near 1.0. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Rhode Island compares

Rhode Island pays 28.18¢/kWh, the 7th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $54.11 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same dehumidifier costs $68.69 a year in Nevada and $255 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $186 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
District of Columbia	25.98¢	$11.69	$140
New Hampshire	27.64¢	$12.44	$149
Rhode Island	28.18¢	$12.68	$152
New York	28.65¢	$12.89	$155
Alaska	29.41¢	$13.23	$159

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a dehumidifier.

What else costs about the same in Rhode Island

Well pump$154 a year in RI Gaming pc$165 a year in RI Aquarium$167 a year in RI

Cutting the number down

Fixing the water source — grading, gutters, a sealed crawlspace — retires the running cost entirely instead of paying it every summer.
Setting the humidistat to 50% instead of 35% cuts runtime sharply with no comfort or mold-risk penalty.
The heat a dehumidifier dumps into the room is a bonus in a basement and a cost upstairs in July.

Questions

How much does a dehumidifier cost per month in Rhode Island?: About $12.68 a month, assuming 500 W at a 60% duty cycle, 12 hours a day, 150 days a year at 28.18¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does a dehumidifier use?: Roughly 540 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.30 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Rhode Island has the 7th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $98.06 a year.