Whirlpool YWFH5424S Running Cost (Clothes Dryer)
What the Whirlpool YWFH5424S costs to run
At 317 kWh/yr, the Whirlpool YWFH5424S's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified clothes dryer.
That $60 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 44.6% less, ranking 96 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 $48/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 Whirlpool YWFH5424S: Whirlpool WFH5424S ($60/yr, 317 kWh/yr), then LG WM6998HA ($71/yr, 380 kWh/yr).
Comparing Whirlpool's own models
Ranked 8 of Whirlpool's 114 certified clothes dryers, this sits between the WHD3090G ($43/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the WGF5727T ($129/yr, its priciest).
Whirlpool YWFH5424S 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 YWFH5424S that long and it costs about $715 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
Efficient as certified clothes dryers go, $60/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified clothes dryers before buying.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the Whirlpool YWFH5424S 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
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 96 of 639 certified dryers for running cost, the Whirlpool YWFH5424S 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.