Samsung DV25FG620 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Samsung DV25FG620 costs to run
At 154 kWh/yr, the Samsung DV25FG620's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
That $29 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 73.1% less, ranking 26 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 $79/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 Samsung DV25FG620: Samsung DV25B68H ($29/yr, 154 kWh/yr), then Asko T5HXLG.U ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr).
Within the Samsung lineup
Ranked 6 of Samsung's 102 certified clothes dryers, this sits between the DV25B69H ($24/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the WH53DBH7G ($129/yr, its priciest).
Samsung DV25FG620 over 12 years
Over the 12-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Samsung DV25FG620 costs roughly $347 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified clothes dryers go, $29/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 Samsung DV25FG620 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 26 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Samsung DV25FG620 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 154 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.