Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW costs to run
The Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW is certified by ENERGY STAR at 608 kWh a year, about average for its category to run among clothes dryers currently certified.
The $114 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW against the category
That's 6.3% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 248 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
Frigidaire FDEX22E4EW ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW. ELLIPSE ELDF278W ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Frigidaire lineup
Frigidaire sells 4 certified clothes dryers; this one runs cheapest of them, $15/year under the FDGX22E4EW, its priciest.
What this adds up to over time
Over the 12-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW costs roughly $1,372 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Shopping for a new one
The Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW 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.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW 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 248 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Frigidaire FDEX21E4EW 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.