Café CDE06RPN Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Café CDE06RPN costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Café CDE06RPN at 279 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
The $52 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Café CDE06RPN against the category
That's 27.7% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 1,596 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 $20/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Gaggenau RC472705 ($52/yr, 279 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Café CDE06RPN. Bosch B30IR905SP ($52/yr, 279 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Café sells 3 certified refrigerators; this one runs cheapest of them, $93/year under the CQE28DMN, its priciest.
Café CDE06RPN over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Café CDE06RPN that long and it costs about $682 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Café CDE06RPN is already efficient for its category at $52/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
Whether or not the Café CDE06RPN ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. At rank 1,596 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.