Absocold ARD369A14R/L Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Absocold ARD369A14R/L costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Absocold ARD369A14R/L at 262 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
That $49 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.
How the Absocold ARD369A14R/L compares to other refrigerators
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 32.1% less, ranking 1,337 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $23/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the Absocold ARD369A14R/L on that list: MADE4 SUPPLY 1814809 ($49/yr, 261 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while Summit ADRD24 ($49/yr, 262 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Within the Absocold lineup
Ranked 5 of Absocold's 10 certified refrigerators, this sits between the ARD244A21R/L ($42/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the ARD484F21R/L ($65/yr, its priciest).
Absocold ARD369A14R/L over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Absocold ARD369A14R/L that long and it costs about $640 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $49/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
Whether or not the Absocold ARD369A14R/L ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
How this was checked
The full Refrigerator category page shows all 4,704 refrigerators ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance. The 262 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.