Kenmore C691341 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Running cost for the Kenmore C691341
ENERGY STAR certifies the Kenmore C691341 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 281 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 Kenmore C691341: Kenmore C681341 ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr), then Maytag MED5500FW ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr).
Comparing Kenmore's own models
Ranked 10 of Kenmore's 13 certified clothes dryers, this sits between the 8120# ($60/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the 716520 ($129/yr, its priciest).
Kenmore C691341 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 Kenmore C691341 that long and it costs about $1,372 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified clothes dryers go, $114/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
The Kenmore C691341 already costs $114/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
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 281 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Kenmore C691341 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.