Summit LDES248 Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Summit LDES248 costs to run
At 317 kWh/yr, the Summit LDES248's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $60 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Summit LDES248 against the category
That's 44.6% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 90 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 $48/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Summit SLDC2404 ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Summit LDES248. Marathon MVD420W ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Summit's own models
Summit makes 6 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 5 of 6 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the LBDHP244 at $53/yr, and its priciest, the SLDC2404 at $60/yr.
Cost over its typical lifespan
12 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $60/year, the Summit LDES248 adds up to about $715 in electricity over that span.
Shopping for a new one
The Summit LDES248 is already efficient for its category at $60/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
At $60/year just to run, a clothes dryer is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
Sourcing
Ranked 90 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Summit LDES248 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 317 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.