Samsung DV25FG500 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Samsung DV25FG500: running cost
At 125 kWh/yr, the Samsung DV25FG500's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $24 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Samsung DV25FG500 against the category
That's 78.1% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 4 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 $84/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
LG DLHC1455 ($25/yr, 133 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Samsung DV25FG500. Samsung DV25B69H ($24/yr, 125 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Samsung's own models
Samsung makes 102 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 2 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 DV25FG500 that long and it costs about $282 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Samsung DV25FG500 is already efficient for its category at $24/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
The Samsung DV25FG500 already costs $24/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 4 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Samsung DV25FG500 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.