Electrolux ELFG7537 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Electrolux ELFG7537: running cost
At 687 kWh/yr, the Electrolux ELFG7537'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.
Where this ranks
That's 20.1% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 543 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 $22/year over 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 Electrolux ELFG7437 ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Electrolux ELFG7626 ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr).
Within the Electrolux lineup
Electrolux makes 40 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 34 of 40 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the ELFE4222 at $60/yr, and its priciest, the ELVG7400AW at $129/yr.
Electrolux ELFG7537 over 12 years
Over the 12-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Electrolux ELFG7537 costs roughly $1,550 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Weighing a replacement
The Electrolux ELFG7537 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.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
The Electrolux ELFG7537 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.
The data behind this page
Ranked 543 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Electrolux ELFG7537 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 687 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.