BREDA LUDH92700 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the BREDA LUDH92700 costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the BREDA LUDH92700 at 283 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
The $53 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 50.5% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 57 of 639 certified clothes dryers for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 639 currently-certified clothes dryers feeds that average, putting this model about $54/year under it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.
The closest alternatives by cost
Sorted by running cost among clothes dryers, one step cheaper is BREDA BRDH927002 ($53/yr, 283 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Gorenje DNPAHPU ($53/yr, 283 kWh/yr).
Within the BREDA lineup
Among BREDA's 2 certified clothes dryers, this is the priciest to run, about the same, within a dollar a year, over the BRDH927002, the brand's cheapest.
Cost over its typical lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical clothes dryer's service life at 12 years; run the BREDA LUDH92700 that long and it costs about $638 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The BREDA LUDH92700 is already efficient for its category at $53/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new clothes dryer costs to run.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the BREDA LUDH92700 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a clothes dryer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
The data behind this page
Ranked 57 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the BREDA LUDH92700 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. Whether a repair or a full replacement dryer makes more sense once the electric bill is this well known is covered in the guide to when replacing one pays off. The 283 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.