There are two running costs to consider

1. The flame effect only (most electric fires are used this way as a focal point.)
   1. All modern electric fires use LED bulbs within the flame effect and are very economical to run. A quick example is that for a flame effect fire only if used five hours a day all year round would cost around £15 for the year!
2. The heater running costs.
   1. To work this out you need to take the kilowatt hour price you pay for your electric and multiply it by the kilowatt output of the fire. (E.g., 22p per Kw x 2Kw output = 44p per hour) most popular 4kw convector plus inset fires cost around 45p per hour on high.