What the Hisense FV17C6AWE costs to run
At 437 kWh/yr, the Hisense FV17C6AWE's ENERGY STAR certification puts it more expensive than most models in its category to run against every other certified freezer.
The $82 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Hisense FV17C6AWE against the category
That's 9% above the freezer category average of 401 kWh/yr, and ranks 388 of 658 certified freezers for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every freezer ENERGY STAR currently certifies (658 models), not an outside benchmark, about $7/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Hisense HFU170N6CWE ($82/yr, 437 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Hisense FV17C6AWE. Hisense CFU17N6A*E ($82/yr, 437 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Hisense's own models
Hisense makes 31 ENERGY STAR certified freezers; this one ranks 15 of 31 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the FV06C7ASE at $50/yr, and its priciest, the HUF210N6A*E at $93/yr.
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
The Hisense FV17C6AWE runs above its category average. If the freezer 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 $82/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified freezers before buying.
Protecting what you have
The Hisense FV17C6AWE already costs $82/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
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 437 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.