Electrolux ELFE762C Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Running cost for the Electrolux ELFE762C
At 608 kWh/yr, the Electrolux ELFE762C's ENERGY STAR certification puts it about average for its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $114 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Electrolux ELFE762C against the category
That's 6.3% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 235 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 $7/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Electrolux ELFE7637 ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Electrolux ELFE762C. Electrolux ELFE7626 ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Electrolux makes 40 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 18 of 40 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the ELFE4222 at $60/yr, and its priciest, the ELVG7400AW at $129/yr.
Electrolux ELFE762C over 12 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical clothes dryer's service life at 12 years; run the Electrolux ELFE762C that long and it costs about $1,372 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Electrolux ELFE762C is already efficient for its category at $114/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
At $114/year just to run, a clothes dryer is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
Sourcing
Ranked 235 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Electrolux ELFE762C 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 608 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.