Danby DDY040D1DSDB: running cost
At 317 kWh/yr, the Danby DDY040D1DSDB's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $60 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Danby DDY040D1DSDB against the category
That's 44.6% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 70 of 639 certified clothes dryers for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every clothes dryer ENERGY STAR currently certifies (639 models), not an outside benchmark, about $48/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Danby DDY040D3WDB ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Danby DDY040D1DSDB. Bosch WTG865H4UC ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Danby lineup
Danby sells 4 certified clothes dryers; this one runs cheapest of them, about the same, within a dollar a year, under the DDY040D4WDB, its priciest.
Danby DDY040D1DSDB over 12 years
Over the 12-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Danby DDY040D1DSDB costs roughly $715 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Weighing a replacement
The Danby DDY040D1DSDB is already efficient for its category at $60/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 Danby DDY040D1DSDB ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a clothes dryer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Ranked 70 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Danby DDY040D1DSDB 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 317 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.