GE Adora DBP655ST Running Cost (Dishwasher)
Running cost for the GE Adora DBP655ST
The GE Adora DBP655ST is certified by ENERGY STAR at 234 kWh a year, about average for its category to run among dishwashers currently certified.
That $44 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 dishwasher
The category average is 232 kWh/yr; this model runs 0.9% above it, ranking 227 of 737 dishwashers tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 737 dishwashers ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $0/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 GE Adora DBP655ST: GE GBT632SM ($44/yr, 234 kWh/yr), then GE Profile PBF665SP ($44/yr, 234 kWh/yr).
Within the GE Adora lineup
The GE Adora DBP655ST is the only dishwasher from GE Adora that ENERGY STAR currently certifies, so there's no same-brand model to weigh it against here, only the full dishwasher category.
What this adds up to over time
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical dishwasher's service life at 9 years; run the GE Adora DBP655ST that long and it costs about $396 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified dishwashers go, $44/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified dishwashers before buying.
If you're keeping it
At $44/year just to run, a dishwasher is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
Where this number comes from
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 234 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.