Whirlpool WHD560CH Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
Running cost for the Whirlpool WHD560CH
At 460 kWh/yr, the Whirlpool WHD560CH's ENERGY STAR certification puts it cheaper than most models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
The $86 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Whirlpool WHD560CH against the category
That's 19.6% below the clothes dryer category average of 572 kWh/yr, and ranks 107 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 $21/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Whirlpool WHD862CH ($86/yr, 460 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Whirlpool WHD560CH. TRUARCTIC TDFH4524HSW ($82/yr, 435 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Whirlpool lineup
Whirlpool makes 114 ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers; this one ranks 9 of 114 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the WHD3090G at $43/yr, and its priciest, the WGF5727T 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 Whirlpool WHD560CH that long and it costs about $1,038 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Whirlpool WHD560CH is already efficient for its category at $86/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
Whether or not the Whirlpool WHD560CH 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 107 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Whirlpool WHD560CH 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.