Pump Electrical Cost Wizard

When choosing a pond or waterfall pump it is important to consider the pump electrical cost in your buying decision. Some energy efficient pumps have a higher purchase price, but due to lower electrical usage will cost considerably less money to operate. For this reason, it is best to determine the pump electrical cost before buying a pond pump based on purchase price alone. It's possible to recoup the initial cost increase of an energy efficient pump via the monthly electrical savings. 

Choose Pump

Visit our Pump Selection Calculator for assistance in choosing a pump for your project.

Determine Watts

Find watts under the pump specs. If watts are unavailable then multipy amps x volts to calculate watts.

Calculate Cost

A energy efficient pump is usually a better investment as it will save you money when compared to a cheap pond pump with a high energy consumption.

Calculate Electrical cost

Fill in the following 4 fields to find out how much an elecric pump (or any other elecrical device) will cost you per month.

Find the Watts in the specs of the pump. Sometimes they may list Amps and Volts instead of Watts. To calculate Watts, multiply Amps X Volts.

Find this on your electricity bill. The average cost per Kilowatt hour in the United States is $0.12.

The number of hours you will run the electrical device in a 24 hour day. Most pond filtration systems run 24 hours per day.

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Do energy efficient pumps really save you money? 

Let's compare the elecrtical cost of two pond pumps that have a similar flow rate.

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Shinmaywa 3300

Flowrate at 5' of head 2,600 gph

Watts 327

Inital cost $349.99+

Monthly operating cost $28.30

Pump cost + 1 year electricty $689.59

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Sequence 3600

Flowrate at 5' of head 2,820 gph

Watts 139

Inital cost $472.99+

Monthly operating cost $12.00

Pump cost + 1 year electricty $616.99

The month to month savings between the two pumps is $16, with these savings you will have paid off the inital additional investment of the more energy efficient pump within 7.5 months. 

Now what?

After running the calculator above, you now know the opearting cost per month to run a given pump. Have a look at our Choosing a Pond Pump page to see the pumps we offer, as well as the wattage of each pump!

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