How much does a laptop cost per month in Louisiana?

About $1.27 a month, assuming 60 W, 8 hours a day, 250 days a year at 12.72¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does a laptop use?

Roughly 120 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.06 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Louisiana has the cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $21.97 a year.

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Cost to run a laptop in Louisiana (July 2026 rates)

At 12.72¢ per kilowatt-hour — Louisiana's average residential price in July 2026 — running a laptop costs $15.26 a year. That is 31% less than the national average of $21.97. Louisiana's residential rate is down 3.0% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $15.74 to $15.26 a year.

Per hour: 0.8¢
Per day of use: 6.1¢
Per month: $1.27
Per year: $15.26

Assumption: 60 W, 8 hours a day, 250 days a year — 120 kWh a year. Charging and working. Once the battery is full, draw drops toward 20 to 30 W for light work. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Louisiana compares

Louisiana pays 12.72¢/kWh, the cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $6.71 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same laptop costs $15.26 a year in Louisiana and $57.60 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $42.34 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Louisiana	12.72¢	$1.27	$15.26
Nevada	12.77¢	$1.28	$15.32
Utah	13.12¢	$1.31	$15.74
North Dakota	13.41¢	$1.34	$16.09
Tennessee	13.71¢	$1.37	$16.45

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a laptop.

What else costs about the same in Louisiana

Air fryer$16.03 a year in LA Box fan$14.31 a year in LA Washing machine$16.54 a year in LA

Cutting the number down

A laptop typically uses a fifth to a tenth of what a comparable desktop does for ordinary work.
The charger left plugged in with no laptop attached draws almost nothing on modern units.

Questions

How much does a laptop cost per month in Louisiana?: About $1.27 a month, assuming 60 W, 8 hours a day, 250 days a year at 12.72¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does a laptop use?: Roughly 120 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.06 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Louisiana has the cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $21.97 a year.