Waykar CTH150A Running Cost (Dehumidifier)
Running cost for the Waykar CTH150A
At 516 kWh/yr, the Waykar CTH150A's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified dehumidifier.
The $97 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Waykar CTH150A against the category
That's 36.5% above the dehumidifier category average of 378 kWh/yr, and ranks 432 of 546 certified dehumidifiers for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every dehumidifier ENERGY STAR currently certifies (546 models), not an outside benchmark, about $26/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Waykar CTH150B ($97/yr, 516 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Waykar CTH150A. TCL W50D9P3-B ($97/yr, 516 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Waykar makes 39 ENERGY STAR certified dehumidifiers; this one ranks 36 of 39 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the CTH30A at $22/yr, and its priciest, the CTH150PB at $97/yr.
Lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components does not publish a figure for dehumidifiers, so no lifetime cost is shown here rather than a guessed one. The annual and monthly figures above stand on their own.
Weighing a replacement
The Waykar CTH150A runs above its category average. If the dehumidifier you actually own is older still, likely well past ENERGY STAR's efficiency baseline when it was made, a current certified model could cost meaningfully less than this model's $97/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified dehumidifiers before buying.
Protecting what you have
$97/year to run is the predictable cost of the Waykar CTH150A; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
Sourcing
The full Dehumidifier category page shows all 546 dehumidifiers ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance. The 516 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.