Name: BANGSON US-BSR-007
Brand: BANGSON

BANGSON US-BSR-007: running cost

One of the cheaper models in its category to run

$39/year, priced at the national-average rate

ENERGY STAR certifies the BANGSON US-BSR-007 at 206 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.

$0.11per day

$3.23per month

206kWh per year, certified

$503over a 13-yr lifespan

Swap in your own state’s rate

The $39 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.

Where this ranks

That's 46.6% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 326 of 4,704 certified refrigerators for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 4,704 currently-certified refrigerators feeds that average, putting this model about $34/year under it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.

The closest alternatives by cost

Sorted by running cost among refrigerators, one step cheaper is BANGSON US-BSR-006 ($39/yr, 206 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is BANGSON US-BSR-007-1 ($39/yr, 206 kWh/yr).

Within the BANGSON lineup

BANGSON makes 53 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 5 of 53 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the US-BSR-003 at $39/yr, and its priciest, the US-BSR-309 at $61/yr.

Cost over its typical lifespan

NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the BANGSON US-BSR-007 that long and it costs about $503 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.

Is it worth replacing?

The BANGSON US-BSR-007 is already efficient for its category at $39/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new refrigerator costs to run.

See what else is certified in this category before you decide.

Protecting what you have

Whether or not the BANGSON US-BSR-007 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.

The data behind this page

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 206 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.