How Many Watts Does An Escalator Use?

How Many Watts Does An Escalator Use? A continuously running escalator of the kind you’d find in airports or subway stations—35 feet high with a 40 horsepower motor—would use around 60,000 kWh annually. (For comparison’s sake, the average American home consumes 11,040 kWh in a year.) How many watts do elevators use? The elevator controller