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What the AVALLON AWC152SPRGLH costs to run

One of the cheaper models in its category to run
$27/year at 18.8¢/kWh, the 51-state average

ENERGY STAR certifies the AVALLON AWC152SPRGLH at 144 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.

$0.07per day
$2.26per month
144kWh per year, certified
$352over a 13-yr lifespan

The $27 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.

AVALLON AWC152SPRGLH against the category

That's 62.7% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 105 of 4,704 certified refrigerators for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every refrigerator ENERGY STAR currently certifies (4,704 models), not an outside benchmark, about $45/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.

What sits beside it in the ranking

DOMETIC C60S1 ($27/yr, 145 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the AVALLON AWC152SPRGLH. XO XOU15WOFR ($27/yr, 143 kWh/yr) costs a little less.

Within the AVALLON lineup

AVALLON makes 33 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 14 of 33 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the AWC15PG1A2A at $18/yr, and its priciest, the ADDR242SS at $52/yr.

What this adds up to over time

NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the AVALLON AWC152SPRGLH that long and it costs about $352 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.

Weighing a replacement

The AVALLON AWC152SPRGLH is already efficient for its category at $27/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new refrigerator costs to run.

Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.

Protecting what you have

$27/year to run is the predictable cost of the AVALLON AWC152SPRGLH; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.

Sourcing

At rank 105 of 4,704 for running cost, see the refrigerator category page for the rest of the field, or the guide to how much your state matters. The 144 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.