ELEMENT ETD7527EBW Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the ELEMENT ETD7527EBW costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the ELEMENT ETD7527EBW at 608 kWh/yr, about average for its category to run for its category.
That $114 is priced at 18.8¢/kWh, the average of all 51 state rates this site tracks. Your own state's rate is one click away.
Efficient, or not, for a clothes dryer
The category average is 572 kWh/yr; this model runs 6.3% above it, ranking 246 of 639 clothes dryers tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 639 clothes dryers ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $7/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the ELEMENT ETD7527EBW: Electrolux ELVE740CAW ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr), then ELLIPSE ELDF278W ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr).
Within the ELEMENT lineup
Of the 3 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers ELEMENT makes, the ETD7527EBW costs the most to run, $55/year more than ELEMENT's cheapest, the ECD4224EGG.
ELEMENT ETD7527EBW 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 ELEMENT ETD7527EBW that long and it costs about $1,372 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified clothes dryers go, $114/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers before buying.
If you're keeping it
A clothes dryer like the ELEMENT ETD7527EBW is a real household expense whether or not it needs replacing yet; a protection plan is one way to budget for a repair rather than a full replacement.
Where this number comes from
Ranked 246 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the ELEMENT ETD7527EBW 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 rest of what changes this number, by state rather than by model, is in the guide to why your state changes this number. The 608 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.