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It's always amazing to find out exactly how much electricity a device uses and how much that electricity costs. We've included a usage calculator on our web site with typical wattages for certain appliances.

Enter the wattage of the appliance in question, then enter the estimated number of hours of use and press the TAB key to automatically calculate your energy costs.


Wattage
of item		 Hours run
per day		 Kilowatts
per month		 Cost
BPU


Taking our calculations further, we have given you comparisons of that electrical usage between the BPU and several other utilities.


BPU National Grid NYSEG NY Averag
Electric Stove/Oven 6000 watts
Refrigerator 150 watts
Dishwasher 1200 watts
Electric Clothes Dryer 4800 watts
Box Fan 100 watts
Computer with Monitor 450 watts
Television 300 watts
Space Heater 600, 900, 1500 watts
Dehumidifier/td> 250 watts
Air Conditioner (5000 BTU) 1000 watts

A watt isn't very big. You can just barely cook a pot of rice with a thousand watts if you leave it on the stove for a whole hour. And that is a "kilowatt hour" (kWh) of electricity. Using a kilowatt hour costs about eight cents on average nationally (though rates around the country range from 4.5 to 17 cents per kWh). Here in Jamestown a residential kilowatt-hour of electricity costs .0605 cents.



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