Wood's WUF140SL Running Cost (Freezer)
Wood's WUF140SL: running cost
At 398 kWh/yr, the Wood's WUF140SL's ENERGY STAR certification puts it about average for its category to run against every other certified freezer.
That $75 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
Against the category average of 401 kWh/yr, this model uses 0.7% less, ranking 319 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 $1/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 Wood's WUF140SL: Fisher & Paykel RS24FE ($75/yr, 398 kWh/yr), then Wood's WUF140W ($75/yr, 398 kWh/yr).
Comparing Wood's's own models
Of the 4 ENERGY STAR certified freezers Wood's makes, the WUF140SL is the cheapest to run, $8/year less than Wood's's priciest, the WUF170W.
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.
Weighing a replacement
Efficient as certified freezers go, $75/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
At $75/year just to run, a freezer is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
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 398 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.