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

About $1.45 a month, assuming 1,500 W, 12 minutes a day, 365 days a year at 15.90¢/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?

Georgia has the 21st cheapest 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 Georgia (August 2026 rates)

At 15.90¢ per kilowatt-hour — Georgia's average residential price in August 2026 — running an electric kettle costs $17.41 a year. That is 12% less than the national average of $19.89. Georgia's residential rate is up 2.3% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $17.03 to $17.41 a year.

Per hour: 23.8¢
Per day of use: 4.8¢
Per month: $1.45
Per year: $17.41

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 Georgia compares

Georgia pays 15.90¢/kWh, the 21st cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $2.47 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
Montana	15.57¢	$1.42	$17.05
South Carolina	15.76¢	$1.44	$17.26
Georgia	15.90¢	$1.45	$17.41
Texas	15.91¢	$1.45	$17.42
Oregon	15.92¢	$1.45	$17.43

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

What else costs about the same in Georgia

Microwave$17.41 a year in GA Incandescent bulb$17.41 a year in GA Box fan$17.89 a year in GA

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 Georgia?: About $1.45 a month, assuming 1,500 W, 12 minutes a day, 365 days a year at 15.90¢/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?: Georgia has the 21st cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $19.89 a year.