Whirlpool WED92HEFU Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Whirlpool WED92HEFU costs to run
At 608 kWh/yr, the Whirlpool WED92HEFU'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.
Whirlpool WED92HEFU against the category
That's 6.3% above the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 411 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
Whirlpool WED92HEFW ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Whirlpool WED92HEFU. Whirlpool WED92HEFC ($114/yr, 608 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Whirlpool's own models
Whirlpool makes 114 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 54 of 114 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the WHD3090G at $43/yr, and its priciest, the WGF5727T at $129/yr.
Whirlpool WED92HEFU over 12 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical clothes dryer's service life at 12 years; run the Whirlpool WED92HEFU that long and it costs about $1,372 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Whirlpool WED92HEFU 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.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Whirlpool WED92HEFU ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a clothes dryer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Ranked 411 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Whirlpool WED92HEFU 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 608 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.