Electrolux ELFG7337 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Running cost for the Electrolux ELFG7337
At 687 kWh/yr, the Electrolux ELFG7337's ENERGY STAR certification puts it more expensive than most models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $129 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Electrolux ELFG7337 against the category
That's 20.1% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 541 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 $22/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Electrolux ELFG7437 ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Electrolux ELFG7337. Electrolux EFMG627 ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Electrolux makes 40 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 32 of 40 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the ELFE4222 at $60/yr, and its priciest, the ELVG7400AW at $129/yr.
Electrolux ELFG7337 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 ELFG7337 that long and it costs about $1,550 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Electrolux ELFG7337 runs above its category average. If the clothes dryer you actually own is older still, likely well past ENERGY STAR's efficiency baseline when it was made, a current certified model could cost meaningfully less than this model's $129/year every year.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
The Electrolux ELFG7337 already costs $129/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
Nothing here is estimated from a nameplate wattage; the 687 kWh/yr is ENERGY STAR's own certified figure for this model. Ranked 541 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Electrolux ELFG7337 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.