Samsung DVE45R63 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Samsung DVE45R63 costs to run
At 608 kWh/yr, the Samsung DVE45R63's ENERGY STAR certification puts it about average for its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $114 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Samsung DVE45R63 against the category
That's 6.3% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 341 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 $7/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Samsung DVE45T6005 ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Samsung DVE45R63. Samsung DVE45B6305 ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Samsung lineup
Samsung makes 102 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 28 of 102 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the DV25B69H at $24/yr, and its priciest, the WH53DBH7G at $129/yr.
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 Samsung DVE45R63 that long and it costs about $1,372 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Samsung DVE45R63 is already efficient for its category at $114/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
Whether or not the Samsung DVE45R63 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a clothes dryer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 341 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Samsung DVE45R63 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.