Miele TWB120 WP Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Miele TWB120 WP costs to run
At 133 kWh/yr, the Miele TWB120 WP's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
That $25 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
Against the category average of 572 kWh/yr, this model uses 76.7% less, ranking 7 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 $83/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 Miele TWB120 WP: LG WKHC152HA ($25/yr, 133 kWh/yr), then Miele TWD160WP ($25/yr, 133 kWh/yr).
Within the Miele lineup
Of the 13 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers Miele makes, the TWB120 WP is the cheapest to run, $21/year less than Miele's priciest, the PDR908 HP.
Cost over its typical lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical clothes dryer's service life at 12 years; run the Miele TWB120 WP that long and it costs about $300 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified clothes dryers go, $25/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the Miele TWB120 WP ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a clothes dryer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
Ranked 7 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Miele TWB120 WP 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. The 133 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.