Premium Levella PHD450HW Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Premium Levella PHD450HW: running cost
At 435 kWh/yr, the Premium Levella PHD450HW's ENERGY STAR certification puts it cheaper than most models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $82 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Premium Levella PHD450HW against the category
That's 24% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 101 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 $26/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Premium Levella PHD456HS ($82/yr, 435 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Premium Levella PHD450HW. Hisense DH5S452BW ($82/yr, 435 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Premium Levella's own models
Premium Levella sells 3 certified clothes dryers; this one runs cheapest of them, about the same, within a dollar a year, under the PHD457HB, its priciest.
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 Premium Levella PHD450HW that long and it costs about $981 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Premium Levella PHD450HW is already efficient for its category at $82/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new clothes dryer costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers before buying.
Protecting what you have
A clothes dryer like the Premium Levella PHD450HW is a real household expense whether or not it needs replacing yet; a protection plan is one way to budget for a repair rather than a full replacement.
Sourcing
Ranked 101 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Premium Levella PHD450HW 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 435 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.