GE Profile PTD70GBT Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
GE Profile PTD70GBT: running cost
The GE Profile PTD70GBT is certified by ENERGY STAR at 687 kWh a year, more expensive than most models in its category to run among clothes dryers currently certified.
That $129 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 20.1% above it, ranking 570 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 $22/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 GE Profile PTD70GBT: GE Profile PTD60GBR ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr), then GE Profile PTD80GBT ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr).
Comparing GE Profile's own models
Ranked 12 of GE Profile's 14 certified clothes dryers, this sits between the PFD87ESV ($114/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the PTD90GBT ($129/yr, its priciest).
GE Profile PTD70GBT 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 GE Profile PTD70GBT that long and it costs about $1,550 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The GE Profile PTD70GBT 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.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers before buying.
If you're keeping it
The GE Profile PTD70GBT 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.
Where this number comes from
Nothing here is estimated from a nameplate wattage; the 687 kWh/yr is ENERGY STAR's own certified figure for this model. Ranked 570 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the GE Profile PTD70GBT 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.