How Much Does It Cost to Run an Electric Kettle per Day?

Source: Planning watts of 1,500 and 0.15 hours a day, hours a day, equal to about nine minutes of heating. Price: 17.23 cents per kWh, the 2025 US residential average from EIA Form EIA-861.

The monthly cost is 1% of the $150.68 average US electric bill. It runs all year, so the yearly cost is twelve times the monthly figure.

One figure cannot fit every home. These three cases show how much the answer moves with the equipment and the hours.

The lowest case costs $0 a month and the highest $4. Use the calculator above to match your own.

The same electric kettle costs different amounts depending on the state, because the price per kWh differs. Here are the three cheapest states, the US average and the three costliest, for the same 7 kWh a month.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Price is residential revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

See electricity rates in every state to find your own.

An electric kettle heats water with a resistance element built into the base. It draws a lot while it runs, then shuts off when the water boils, so its daily cost is small because it runs for only minutes.

The amount of water and the number of boils set the cost. Heating only the water you need uses less than filling the kettle each time. Kettles lose little heat compared with a stove burner and pot.

The range for this kind of appliance runs from about 1,000 to 1,800 watts. At 0.15 hours a day that is $1 to $1 a month, which is why checking the label on yours is worth the minute.

• Boil only as much water as you need, while covering the heating element.
• Descale the kettle when scale builds up, since it makes the element work harder.
• Use a kettle instead of a stove burner for small amounts of water.

Next step: Electric stove costs. For general ideas, read how to lower your electric bill.

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The cost is watts divided by 1,000, times hours, times your price per kWh. The 1,500 watts is a planning figure for this kind of appliance, set from typical product ratings, and the 0.15 hours is an assumed day of use. Neither is copied from a federal table. Federal guidance describes the method and warns that real wattage varies, so we publish our own typical ranges and label them as such. Prices come from EIA Form EIA-861 for 2025.

The calculation is the standard one used in the U.S. Department of Energy's consumer guidance on estimating appliance energy use. Wattage varies by product age and features, so the label on your own appliance beats any average. Read more in our methodology.