BANGSON US-BSR-300A Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the BANGSON US-BSR-300A
At 326 kWh/yr, the BANGSON US-BSR-300A's ENERGY STAR certification puts it cheaper than most models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
That $61 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 refrigerator
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 15.5% less, ranking 2,075 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 4,704 refrigerators ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $11/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 BANGSON US-BSR-300A: BANGSON US-BSR-300-3 ($61/yr, 326 kWh/yr), then BANGSON US-BSR-301 ($61/yr, 326 kWh/yr).
Within the BANGSON lineup
Ranked 40 of BANGSON's 53 certified refrigerators, this sits between the US-BSR-003 ($39/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the US-BSR-309 ($61/yr, its priciest).
BANGSON US-BSR-300A over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the BANGSON US-BSR-300A that long and it costs about $797 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $61/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 BANGSON US-BSR-300A ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
Ranked 2,075 of 4,704, the BANGSON US-BSR-300A sits in the middle of the refrigerator category, see the guide to why your state changes this number for the other half of the math. The 326 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.