Miele TWD360WP Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Miele TWD360WP: running cost
The Miele TWD360WP is certified by ENERGY STAR at 133 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among clothes dryers currently certified.
The $25 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Miele TWD360WP against the category
That's 76.7% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 9 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 $83/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Miele TWF160 WP ($25/yr, 133 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Miele TWD360WP. Miele TWD160WP ($25/yr, 133 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Miele makes 13 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 3 of 13 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the TWB120 WP at $25/yr, and its priciest, the PDR908 HP at $46/yr.
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 TWD360WP that long and it costs about $300 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Miele TWD360WP is already efficient for its category at $25/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new clothes dryer costs to run.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
$25/year to run is the predictable cost of the Miele TWD360WP; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 9 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Miele TWD360WP 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.