How much does an electric kettle cost per month in Alabama?

About $1.50 a month, assuming 1,500 W, 12 minutes a day, 365 days a year at 16.40¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does an electric kettle use?

Roughly 110 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.50 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Alabama has the 24th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $20.08 a year.

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Cost to run an electric kettle in Alabama (June 2026 rates)

At 16.40¢ per kilowatt-hour — Alabama's average residential price in June 2026 — running an electric kettle costs $17.96 a year. That is 11% less than the national average of $20.08. Alabama's residential rate is up 2.1% from June 2025, which moves this appliance from $17.59 to $17.96 a year.

Per hour: 24.6¢
Per day of use: 4.9¢
Per month: $1.50
Per year: $17.96

Assumption: 1,500 W, 12 minutes a day, 365 days a year — 110 kWh a year. About 12 minutes of boiling a day, roughly four or five kettles. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Alabama compares

Alabama pays 16.40¢/kWh, the 24th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $2.12 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same electric kettle costs $14.36 a year in Nevada and $57.73 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $43.37 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Oregon	16.32¢	$1.49	$17.87
Georgia	16.36¢	$1.49	$17.91
Alabama	16.40¢	$1.50	$17.96
Colorado	17.13¢	$1.56	$18.76
Virginia	17.22¢	$1.57	$18.86

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an electric kettle.

What else costs about the same in Alabama

Microwave$17.96 a year in AL Incandescent bulb$17.96 a year in AL Box fan$18.45 a year in AL

Cutting the number down

Boiling only the water you need is the whole game. Filling a full kettle for one cup roughly triples the cost of that cup.
An electric kettle beats a stovetop electric burner because almost none of the heat escapes around the vessel.

Questions

How much does an electric kettle cost per month in Alabama?: About $1.50 a month, assuming 1,500 W, 12 minutes a day, 365 days a year at 16.40¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does an electric kettle use?: Roughly 110 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.50 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Alabama has the 24th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $20.08 a year.