LG DLGX4201 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the LG DLGX4201 costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the LG DLGX4201 at 685 kWh/yr, more expensive than most models in its category to run for its category.
The $129 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
LG DLGX4201 against the category
That's 19.8% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 489 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 $21/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
LG DLGX4271 ($129/yr, 685 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the LG DLGX4201. LG DLGX4081 ($129/yr, 685 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the LG lineup
LG makes 144 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 115 of 144 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the DLHC1455 at $25/yr, and its priciest, the WSGX201HA at $129/yr.
LG DLGX4201 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 LG DLGX4201 that long and it costs about $1,545 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The LG DLGX4201 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.
Protecting what you have
The LG DLGX4201 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.
Sourcing
Ranked 489 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the LG DLGX4201 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 685 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.