Midea MLTG45N5CWW: running cost
The Midea MLTG45N5CWW 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.
The $129 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 20.1% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 587 of 639 certified clothes dryers for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 639 currently-certified clothes dryers feeds that average, putting this model about $22/year over it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.
The closest alternatives by cost
Sorted by running cost among clothes dryers, one step cheaper is Midea MLTG45N5CCG ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Midea MLTG45N5CWWC ($129/yr, 687 kWh/yr).
Comparing Midea's own models
Midea makes 35 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 28 of 35 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the MLE27N5AWWC at $44/yr, and its priciest, the MLTG54S7ACG at $129/yr.
What this adds up to over time
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical clothes dryer's service life at 12 years; run the Midea MLTG45N5CWW that long and it costs about $1,550 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
At $129/year, this is on the expensive side for a clothes dryer; the cheapest certified model in this category runs about $23/year, worth knowing before buying either the Midea MLTG45N5CWW or its replacement.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Midea MLTG45N5CWW ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a clothes dryer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
The data behind this page
Ranked 587 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Midea MLTG45N5CWW 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 687 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.