Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C costs to run
At 236 kWh/yr, the Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $44 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C against the category
That's 58.7% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 40 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 $63/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Midea MLE27N5AWWC ($44/yr, 236 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C. Whirlpool YWHD5090G ($43/yr, 229 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Insignia lineup
The Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C is the only clothes dryer from Insignia that ENERGY STAR currently certifies, so there's no same-brand model to weigh it against here, only the full clothes dryer category.
What this adds up to over time
Over the 12-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C costs roughly $532 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Is it worth replacing?
The Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C is already efficient for its category at $44/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new clothes dryer costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers before buying.
Protecting what you have
A clothes dryer like the Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C 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.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 40 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Insignia NS-FDRE44W1-C 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.