TV Electricity Cost Calculator
See what any appliance adds to your electricity bill: pick a device or enter watts, hours per day and your price per kWh to get energy use and cost per day, month and year.
Processed entirely in your browser — nothing you enter here is ever uploaded.
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About this tool
This page opens the electricity cost calculator preset for a television: 100 watts, a fair average for a modern mid-size flat screen, at 4 hours of viewing a day. Adjust the hours to match your household and enter your price per kWh to see what TV time actually costs.
At these defaults the math is modest: 0.4 kWh per day, about 12 kWh per month and 146 kWh per year. Even at a high tariff a TV is one of the cheaper appliances to run — a whole evening of viewing usually costs less than boiling a kettle twice — which the day/month/year breakdown makes easy to confirm.
Real draw varies more than people expect: a small LED set can sip 40 W while a large, bright OLED playing HDR content can pull 200–300 W, so check the label or your model's spec sheet and edit the wattage. Screen brightness is the biggest lever — turning it down from shop mode to a calibrated picture often halves consumption — and modern standby draws under 1 W, so the on-hours are what count. Everything is calculated locally in your browser.
Example. 1000 watts used 2 hours a day is 2 kWh per day; at 0.10 per kWh that is 0.20 per day and 6.00 over a 30-day month.
Limit. Hours per day are clamped to the range 0 through 24, and every month is counted as 30 days.