Miscellaneous electricity accounts for about one fifth of residential electricity use, 235 billion kilowatt hours!, and for most of the projected growth in residential electricity use.
| Typical Miscellaneous Electricity Uses in the Home | |
| End Use Name | Consumption (kilowatt-hours/year) |
| Auto Coffee Maker | 116 |
| Air Cleaner Electric, not mounted | 55 |
| Mounted Air Cleaner | 500 |
| Answering Machine | 29 |
| Air Corn Popper | 6 |
| Aquariums | 548 |
| Battery Charger | 21 |
| Blender | 7 |
| Boom Box | 21 |
| Electric Toothbrush | 20 |
| B & W TV | 33 |
| Can Opener | 3 |
| Compact Audio | 94 |
| Cable Boxes | 114 |
| Ceiling Fan | 50 |
| Clock | 18 |
| Color TV | 141 |
| Compactor | 50 |
| Copiers | 25 |
| Cordless Phone | 25 |
| Crankcase Heater | 200 |
| Curling Iron | 1 |
| Clotheswasher | 102 |
| Doorbell | 18 |
| Desk Fan | 8 |
| Deep Fryer | 20 |
| Dehumidifier | 400 |
| Garbage Disposer | 10 |
| Dishwasher | 159 |
| Electric Blankets | 120 |
| Evaporative Cooler | 1184 |
| Exhaust Fan | 15 |
| Espresso Maker | 19 |
| Auto Engine Heaters | 250 |
| Hand-Held Electric Vacuum | 4 |
| Fax Machine | 326 |
| Floor Fan | 8 |
| Video Games | 24 |
| Garage Door Opener | 30 |
| Automatic Griddles | 5 |
| Electric grill | 180 |
| Grow Lights | 800 |
| Halogen Lights | 4 |
| Waterbed Heaters | 900 |
| Hair Dryer | 36 |
| Whole House Fan | 80 |
| Hand Held Massager | 0 |
| Hand Mixers | 2 |
| Heating Pads | 3 |
| Hot Plate | 30 |
| Home radio, small/clock | 18 |
| Hair Setter | 10 |
| Humidifier | 100 |
| Instant Hot Water | 160 |
| Iron | 53 |
| Juicer | 0 |
| Electric Kettle | 75 |
| Central Vacuum | 24 |
| Torchiere Lamps | 394 |
| Laser Printer | 113 |
| Home Medical Equipment | 400 |
| Multi-fcn Device | 41 |
| Modem | 12 |
| Electric Lawn Mower | 100 |
| Men's Shaver | 13 |
| Microwave | 144 |
| Electric Knife | 1 |
| Hot Oil Corn Popper | 2 |
| Perc Coffee | 65 |
| Projection Color TV | 234 |
| Pool Pump | 1500 |
| Printer | 20 |
| Computers | 156 |
| Power Strip | 3 |
| RACK Audio System | 81 |
| Furnace Fan | 500 |
| Hand-Held Rechargeable | 16 |
| Satellite Earth Station | 131 |
| Security System | 195 |
| Stand Fan | 8 |
| Food Slicer | 1 |
| Slow Cooker | 16 |
| Stand Mixers | 1 |
| Spa/Hot Tub | 2300 |
| Sump/Sewage Pump | 40 |
| Heat Tape | 100 |
| Timer | 18 |
| Toaster | 39 |
| Toaster Oven | 50 |
| TV/VCR Combo | 152 |
| Vacuum | 31 |
| Video Cassette Recorder | 58 |
| Waffle Iron/Sandwich Grill | 25 |
| Bottled Water Dispenser | 300 |
| Well Pump | 400 |
| Window Fan | 20 |
| Women's Shaver | 12 |
| Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| End-Use Forecasting Group (1995) | |