Cost to run an LED bulb in Nevada (July 2026 rates)
At 12.77¢ per kilowatt-hour — Nevada's average residential price in July 2026 — running an LED bulb costs $2.10 a year. That is 30% less than the national average of $3.01. Nevada's residential rate is up 3.1% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $2.04 to $2.10 a year.
- Per hour
- 0.1¢
- Per day of use
- 0.6¢
- Per month
- 17.5¢
- Per year
- $2.10
Assumption: 9 W, 5 hours a day, 365 days a year — 16 kWh a year. A 9 W LED producing about 800 lumens, the equivalent of an old 60 W incandescent. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Nevada compares
Nevada pays 12.77¢/kWh, the 2nd cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 91.0¢ less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same LED bulb costs $2.09 a year in Louisiana and $7.88 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $5.79 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 12.72¢ | 17.4¢ | $2.09 |
| Nevada | 12.77¢ | 17.5¢ | $2.10 |
| Utah | 13.12¢ | 18.0¢ | $2.15 |
| North Dakota | 13.41¢ | 18.4¢ | $2.20 |
| Tennessee | 13.71¢ | 18.8¢ | $2.25 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an LED bulb.
What else costs about the same in Nevada
Cutting the number down
- Per bulb the cost is trivial; a house has 40 of them, and that is the number that matters.
- Dimming an LED does cut power draw, though not perfectly in proportion to the light output.
Questions
- How much does an LED bulb cost per month in Nevada?
- About 17.5¢ a month, assuming 9 W, 5 hours a day, 365 days a year at 12.77¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does an LED bulb use?
- Roughly 16 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.01 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Nevada has the 2nd cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $3.01 a year.