Samsung DV22N685H Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Samsung DV22N685H costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Samsung DV22N685H at 145 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
The $27 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Samsung DV22N685H against the category
That's 74.7% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 21 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 $80/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Beko HPD24412W ($28/yr, 149 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Samsung DV22N685H. Samsung DV22N680H ($27/yr, 145 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Samsung makes 102 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 4 of 102 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the DV25B69H at $24/yr, and its priciest, the WH53DBH7G at $129/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 Samsung DV22N685H that long and it costs about $327 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Samsung DV22N685H is already efficient for its category at $27/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new clothes dryer costs to run.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
$27/year to run is the predictable cost of the Samsung DV22N685H; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
Sourcing
Ranked 21 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Samsung DV22N685H 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 145 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.