What the Premium Levella PFV1406XS costs to run
The Premium Levella PFV1406XS is certified by ENERGY STAR at 396 kWh a year, about average for its category to run among freezers currently certified.
The $74 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Premium Levella PFV1406XS against the category
That's 1.2% below the freezer category average of 401 kWh/yr, and ranks 308 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 $1/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Professional Series® PS-UFR141 ($74/yr, 396 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Premium Levella PFV1406XS. Premium Levella PFV1405XW ($74/yr, 396 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Premium Levella lineup
Premium Levella makes 3 ENERGY STAR certified freezers; this one ranks 2 of 3 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the PFV1405XW at $74/yr, and its priciest, the PFV21206HS 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 Premium Levella PFV1406XS is already efficient for its category at $74/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new freezer costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified freezers before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Premium Levella PFV1406XS ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a freezer, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
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 396 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.