Electricity & water

Appliance electricity cost

See what one appliance could add to your monthly electricity spend.

Your plan and appliance

Municipal electricity plan

Choose the plan on your bill. Home User here covers billed consumption only. We don't work out which plan you qualify for.

Monthly usage without this appliance (kWh)

Use the kWh from a typical month before adding this appliance. If your bill already includes it, subtract its usage first.Appliance power (watts)

If it switches on and off, the wattage on the label may not be its average draw across the hours you enter. Use average draw if you know it.Hours used each day

Days used in the month

Plans we can't calculate with

City of Cape Town, Domestic prepaid: This prepaid plan's price steps depend on token purchases, which monthly usage alone can't tell us.
Johannesburg (City Power), Higher-use household prepaid: We haven't checked this tariff yet, so we can't use it as current.
City of Tshwane, Residential prepaid: We haven't checked this tariff yet, so we can't use it as current.

This appliance could addR 106,78City of Cape Town · Home User. Added energy cost for the month, including VAT.

Example inputs — 1 000 W × 1 hour a day × 30 days, on top of 500 kWh without this appliance.

Added electricity: 30 kWh
Energy cost without appliance: R 1 779,74
Energy cost with appliance: R 1 886,52

Your existing fixed charges aren't added again. This compares energy costs on the same plan.

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Appliance electricity cost

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