Fisher & Paykel RS30F: running cost
At 491 kWh/yr, the Fisher & Paykel RS30F's ENERGY STAR certification puts it more expensive than most models in its category to run against every other certified freezer.
That $92 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 freezer
The category average is 401 kWh/yr; this model runs 22.4% above it, ranking 487 of 658 freezers tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 658 freezers ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $17/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 Fisher & Paykel RS30F: Liebherr MF 3061 ($91/yr, 486 kWh/yr), then Arctic Wind AUFSS210ETH-LK ($93/yr, 492 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Of the 8 ENERGY STAR certified freezers Fisher & Paykel makes, the RS30F costs the most to run, $36/year more than Fisher & Paykel's cheapest, the RB36S.
Lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components does not publish a figure for freezers, so no lifetime cost is shown here rather than a guessed one. The annual and monthly figures above stand on their own.
Shopping for a new one
At $92/year, this is on the expensive side for a freezer; the cheapest certified model in this category runs about $26/year, worth knowing before buying either the Fisher & Paykel RS30F or its replacement.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the Fisher & Paykel RS30F ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a freezer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
The full Freezer category page shows all 658 freezers ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance. The 491 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.