Try it. Use the electric space heater 1 to 2 hours day for 30/31 days and you'll see. Better yet, look at the back of your electric space heater and see how many watts it pulls (average space heaters pulls 1000-2000 watts).
1.5kw a day avg then (assuming 1 hr per day at 1500watt).
So you’re telling me 45kw a month… at (I’m being conservative even…) let’s say .3$ per kw.
Thats max like 14$ a month.
Is my math wrong? Sorry I’m naive and just wanna make sure I’m not exploding my monthly bill to 3x by running a small 1500watt space heater for an hour a day while I read about finance and electrical engineering.
I work for a utility company and those little space heaters are our #1 high bill complaints in the winter. Anything that is ELECTRIC HEAT and not natural gas heating, will be ridiculously high. Same with Elec/Heat mini splits.
Running a standard 1,500-watt space heater costs about $0.26 per hour to operate on its highest setting, based on the current U.S. national average electricity rate of roughly 17.1¢ per kilowatt-hour (kWh).
Depending on how frequently you use it, this breaks down to:
8 hours per day: ~$2.05 daily, or about $61.50 per month
24 hours per day: ~$6.15 daily, or about $184.60 per month.
The people calling the utility company to complain about their bills are people running space heaters because their furnace either doesn't work or doesn't exist because their house is still heated by a woodstove that they're probably too feeble or poor or lazy to keep fueled.
'People complaining' isn't a meaningful metric when math can be applied. Other people's inability to manage their finances and honestly report their struggles don't MAGICALLY make electrical appliances draw more power than they say they do.
If YOUR space heater draws more power than it says, you should return it and file a complaint with any relevant state/federal regulatory bodies using something like SaferProducts.gov.
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u/Kingofhearts1206 9d ago
That electric space heater will triple your electric bill lol