Blomberg DHP24412W Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Blomberg DHP24412W: running cost
At 149 kWh/yr, the Blomberg DHP24412W's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
That $28 is priced at 18.8¢/kWh, the average of all 51 state rates this site tracks. Your own state's rate is one click away.
Efficient, or not, for a clothes dryer
Against the category average of 572 kWh/yr, this model uses 74% less, ranking 24 of 639 clothes dryers tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 639 clothes dryers ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $80/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the Blomberg DHP24412W: Blomberg DHP24400W ($28/yr, 149 kWh/yr), then Samsung DV25B68H ($29/yr, 154 kWh/yr).
Comparing Blomberg's own models
Ranked 2 of Blomberg's 4 certified clothes dryers, this sits between the DHP24400W ($28/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the DHP24404W3 ($41/yr, its priciest).
What this adds up to over time
12 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $28/year, the Blomberg DHP24412W adds up to about $336 in electricity over that span.
Weighing a replacement
Efficient as certified clothes dryers go, $28/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
At $28/year just to run, a clothes dryer is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
Where this number comes from
Ranked 24 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Blomberg DHP24412W is also worth reading with a caveat specific to this category: the methodology page explains why ENERGY STAR's own combined-energy figure for dryers can overstate the electric bill impact of a gas model. The rest of what changes this number, by state rather than by model, is in the guide to why your state changes this number. The 149 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.