How Much Does It Cost to Run a 65 Inch OLED TV?
Short answer: about $0.13 a day and $3.89 a month, or $0.026 for each hour it runs at full power, at the 2025 US average electricity rate. That is for a 150 W 65 inch oled tv running 5 hours a day with a 100% duty cycle. Change the state and hours below for your own number.
Updated Nov 8, 2026
Quick answer
Quick answer, US average (17.3 c/kWh)
About $3.89 a month
The same use costs $2.66 a month in North Dakota and $9.13 in Hawaii.
- Per hour
- $0.026
- at 150 W
- Per day
- $0.13
- 5 h, 0.75 kWh
- Per month
- $3.89
- 30 days
- Per year
- $47.36
- 365 days at the same use
Your state, your hours
Per hour
$0.026
Per day
$0.13
Per month
$3.89
Per year
$47.36
65 Inch OLED TV at 150 W, 5 h a day, 30 days a month, 100% duty cycle: 22.5 kWh a month. Using the 2025 US average of 17.3 cents/kWh.
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What decides the cost of running a 65 inch oled tv
An OLED TV has no backlight. Each pixel makes its own light, so the power draw rises and falls with what is on screen. A dark movie scene draws much less than a bright sports broadcast or a white web page, and a 65 inch OLED playing typical content in a standard picture mode usually lands between 100 and 200 W. The default here is 150 W for 5 hours a day, which is 0.75 kWh a day and about $3.89 a month at the national average rate.
Picture mode is the biggest setting you control. Vivid or dynamic modes push brightness to the maximum and can raise consumption by a third or more compared with a standard or filmmaker mode, and HDR content runs the panel harder in bright highlights. The energy saving and ambient light sensor settings dim the panel in a darker room, which cuts the draw noticeably without most people noticing the picture change. Most TVs ship in a store-friendly bright mode, so a quick trip through the settings is often the whole saving.
Compared with an LED LCD TV, OLED is not automatically the more expensive option. The 55 inch LED entry on this site uses 80 W, so it costs less, but a 65 inch LCD with a bright full-array or mini-LED backlight often draws in the same 100 to 200 W range as an OLED. Screen size drives consumption more than panel type, since a 65 inch screen has about 40 percent more area than a 55.
Standby is small on current sets, usually 0.5 W or less, but quick-start or always-listening voice features can keep more of the TV awake. If your set has a quick start option and you do not need the TV to wake instantly, turning it off brings standby back down to a fraction of a watt.
How to cut it
- Switch from vivid to standard or filmmaker mode. It is usually the single biggest saving.
- Turn on the ambient light sensor so the panel dims in a dark room.
- Disable quick start if you do not need instant wake. It raises standby draw.
- Use a sleep timer if you fall asleep with the TV on.
65 Inch OLED TV cost by state
Monthly cost for 150 W, 5 h a day, 100% duty cycle, 30 days, sorted cheapest to most expensive. Pick your state above to highlight it.
| Rank | State | Cents/kWh | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Dakota | 11.81 | $2.66 |
| 2 | Idaho | 11.82 | $2.66 |
| 3 | Nebraska | 12.34 | $2.78 |
| 4 | Louisiana | 12.57 | $2.83 |
| 5 | Arkansas | 12.84 | $2.89 |
| 6 | Montana | 12.98 | $2.92 |
| 7 | Utah | 13.07 | $2.94 |
| 8 | Washington | 13.11 | $2.95 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | 13.12 | $2.95 |
| 10 | Nevada | 13.15 | $2.96 |
| 11 | Tennessee | 13.18 | $2.97 |
| 12 | Kentucky | 13.24 | $2.98 |
| 13 | South Dakota | 13.38 | $3.01 |
| 14 | Wyoming | 13.38 | $3.01 |
| 15 | Missouri | 13.49 | $3.04 |
| 16 | Iowa | 13.72 | $3.09 |
| 17 | North Carolina | 14.02 | $3.15 |
| 18 | Mississippi | 14.03 | $3.16 |
| 19 | Kansas | 14.56 | $3.28 |
| 20 | Georgia | 14.73 | $3.31 |
| 21 | South Carolina | 14.96 | $3.37 |
| 22 | New Mexico | 15.08 | $3.39 |
| 23 | Florida | 15.24 | $3.43 |
| 24 | Virginia | 15.28 | $3.44 |
| 25 | Arizona | 15.32 | $3.45 |
| 26 | Oregon | 15.37 | $3.46 |
| 27 | West Virginia | 15.41 | $3.47 |
| 28 | Texas | 15.47 | $3.48 |
| 29 | Minnesota | 15.82 | $3.56 |
| 30 | Colorado | 15.85 | $3.57 |
| 31 | Alabama | 16.10 | $3.62 |
| 32 | Indiana | 16.23 | $3.65 |
| 33 | Ohio | 16.96 | $3.82 |
| 34 | Delaware | 17.13 | $3.85 |
| 35 | Illinois | 17.69 | $3.98 |
| 36 | Wisconsin | 18.16 | $4.09 |
| 37 | Pennsylvania | 19.30 | $4.34 |
| 38 | Maryland | 19.48 | $4.38 |
| 39 | Michigan | 20.01 | $4.50 |
| 40 | District of Columbia | 21.94 | $4.94 |
| 41 | New Jersey | 22.63 | $5.09 |
| 42 | Vermont | 22.92 | $5.16 |
| 43 | New Hampshire | 24.56 | $5.53 |
| 44 | Alaska | 26.09 | $5.87 |
| 45 | New York | 26.39 | $5.94 |
| 46 | Maine | 27.78 | $6.25 |
| 47 | Connecticut | 29.38 | $6.61 |
| 48 | Rhode Island | 29.46 | $6.63 |
| 49 | Massachusetts | 30.48 | $6.86 |
| 50 | California | 32.54 | $7.32 |
| 51 | Hawaii | 40.59 | $9.13 |
Rates: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861, annual average residential price, 2025 (eia.gov). Full list on the electricity rates by state page.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to run a 65 inch OLED TV per hour?+
About 2.6 cents an hour. At 150 W the TV uses 0.15 kWh an hour, and 0.15 x $0.173 is $0.026. In a bright vivid mode at 200 W it is about 3.5 cents.
How much does it cost to run a 65 inch OLED TV per month?+
About $3.89 a month. 150 W for 5 hours a day is 0.75 kWh, or 22.5 kWh over 30 days, and 22.5 x $0.173 is about $3.89.
How much does it cost to run an OLED TV per year?+
About $47 a year. 0.75 kWh a day for 365 days is 273.75 kWh, and 273.75 x $0.173 is about $47.36 at the national average rate.
How many watts does a 65 inch OLED TV use?+
About 100 to 200 W in a standard picture mode, depending on what is on screen. Bright HDR scenes and vivid mode push it higher, and dark scenes pull it lower. Standby is usually 0.5 W or less.
How much does it cost to leave a TV on 24 hours a day?+
About 62 cents a day for a 150 W OLED. 0.15 kW x 24 hours = 3.6 kWh, and 3.6 x $0.173 is $0.62, or about $18.70 over a 30 day month.
Does an OLED TV use a lot of electricity?+
A modest amount. At about 0.75 kWh a day it uses less than a 150 W refrigerator running 24 hours at a 35 percent duty cycle (1.26 kWh a day), and about the same as one hour of a 750 W window AC compressor.
Does an OLED TV cost more to run than an LED TV?+
Against a smaller LED set, yes. The 55 inch LED on this site at 80 W for 5 hours costs about $2.08 a month, against about $3.89 for a 150 W 65 inch OLED. Against a 65 inch LED with a bright mini-LED backlight, the cost is usually similar.
Does picture mode affect how much electricity a TV uses?+
Yes, a lot. Vivid or dynamic mode can use a third or more extra power compared with standard or filmmaker mode. Switching modes is free and often saves more than any other setting.
How long will a power station run a 65 inch TV?+
About 5.7 hours from a 1,000 Wh station at 150 W, after about 15 percent inverter loss (1,000 x 0.85 / 150 = 5.7). Add a soundbar or game console and the runtime drops accordingly.
How can I lower the cost of running an OLED TV?+
Use standard or filmmaker mode instead of vivid, turn on the ambient light sensor, and switch off quick start. Each 50 W you trim at 5 hours a day saves 0.25 kWh, about $1.30 a month.
Marcus Reed
Founder and Editor, CrunchYourDollars
Marcus Reed builds the sizing tools on CrunchYourDollars. He is a software engineer with a long-running PC hardware and power supply habit, which is where the watts, watt-hours and surge math on this site comes from. Product specs are pulled from manufacturer data sheets, electricity rates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and water chemistry rules from the Water Quality Association. He is not a licensed electrician or plumber: the tools show the math and the matching models so you can make the call, and anything involving your electrical panel should be checked by a licensed pro.
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