Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 Running Cost (Clothes…
Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040: running cost
ENERGY STAR certifies the Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 at 317 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
The $60 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 against the category
That's 44.6% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 78 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
FINLUX DR4400WSB ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040. ELEMENT ECD4224EGW ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Equator Advanced Appliances lineup
The Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 is the only clothes dryer from Equator Advanced Appliances that ENERGY STAR currently certifies, so there's no same-brand model to weigh it against here, only the full clothes dryer category.
Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 over 12 years
Over the 12-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 costs roughly $715 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Shopping for a new one
The Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 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 Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 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 78 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Equator Advanced Appliances CD 4040 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 317 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.