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Cost to run a slow cooker in Alaska (August 2026 rates)
At 29.41¢ per kilowatt-hour — Alaska's average residential price in August 2026 — running a slow cooker costs $28.23 a year. That is 62% more than the national average of $17.43. Alaska's residential rate is up 5.8% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $26.68 to $28.23 a year.
- Per hour
- 5.9¢
- Per day of use
- 47.1¢
- Per month
- $2.35
- Per year
- $28.23
Assumption: 200 W, 8 hours a day, 60 days a year — 96 kWh a year. A 6-quart cooker on low. Eight hours at 200 W is less energy than one hour of oven time. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Alaska compares
Alaska pays 29.41¢/kWh, the 5th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $10.80 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same slow cooker costs $12.21 a year in Nevada and $45.29 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $33.08 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 28.18¢ | $2.25 | $27.05 |
| New York | 28.65¢ | $2.29 | $27.50 |
| Alaska | 29.41¢ | $2.35 | $28.23 |
| California | 29.75¢ | $2.38 | $28.56 |
| Massachusetts | 30.48¢ | $2.44 | $29.26 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a slow cooker.
What else costs about the same in Alaska
Cutting the number down
- Long and low is genuinely cheap: the whole point is a small element holding a well-insulated pot, not a big element fighting a big cavity.
- Lifting the lid to peek costs 15 to 20 minutes of added cooking time each go.
Questions
- How much does a slow cooker cost per month in Alaska?
- About $2.35 a month, assuming 200 W, 8 hours a day, 60 days a year at 29.41¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a slow cooker use?
- Roughly 96 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.20 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Alaska has the 5th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $17.43 a year.