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

About $1.49 a month, assuming 1,500 W, 12 minutes a day, 365 days a year at 16.33¢/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 26th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $19.89 a year.

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

At 16.33¢ per kilowatt-hour — Alabama's average residential price in August 2026 — running an electric kettle costs $17.88 a year. That is 10% less than the national average of $19.89.

Per hour: 24.5¢
Per day of use: 4.9¢
Per month: $1.49
Per year: $17.88

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 16.33¢/kWh, the 26th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $2.00 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same electric kettle costs $13.93 a year in Nevada and $51.66 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $37.73 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Missouri	16.02¢	$1.46	$17.54
West Virginia	16.31¢	$1.49	$17.86
Alabama	16.33¢	$1.49	$17.88
New Mexico	16.51¢	$1.51	$18.08
Indiana	17.02¢	$1.55	$18.64

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$17.88 a year in AL Incandescent bulb$17.88 a year in AL Box fan$18.37 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 $1.49 a month, assuming 1,500 W, 12 minutes a day, 365 days a year at 16.33¢/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 26th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $19.89 a year.