What the Cafe CDD220**W*** costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Cafe CDD220**W*** at 155 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
The $29 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Cafe CDD220**W*** against the category
That's 33.2% below the dishwasher category average of 232 kWh/yr, and ranks 12 of 737 certified dishwashers for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every dishwasher ENERGY STAR currently certifies (737 models), not an outside benchmark, about $14/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Comfee CDC22P**** ($29/yr, 155 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Cafe CDD220**W***. BLACK+DECKER BCD6W ($29/yr, 155 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Cafe lineup
Cafe sells 9 certified dishwashers; this one runs cheapest of them, $16/year under the CDT888**V***, its priciest.
Cafe CDD220**W*** over 9 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical dishwasher's service life at 9 years; run the Cafe CDD220**W*** that long and it costs about $262 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Cafe CDD220**W*** is already efficient for its category at $29/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new dishwasher costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified dishwashers before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Cafe CDD220**W*** ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a dishwasher, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
The full Dishwasher category page shows all 737 dishwashers ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance. The 155 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.