Cafe CVE28DMNF Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Cafe CVE28DMNF costs to run
The Cafe CVE28DMNF is certified by ENERGY STAR at 757 kWh a year, one of the more expensive models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $142 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Cafe CVE28DMNF against the category
That's 96.1% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 4,629 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 $70/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Cafe CVE28DMNG ($142/yr, 757 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Cafe CVE28DMNF. Cafe CVE28DMNE ($142/yr, 757 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Cafe makes 35 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 21 of 35 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the CCP06BPP at $52/yr, and its priciest, the CVE28DP4NH at $142/yr.
What this adds up to over time
13 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $142/year, the Cafe CVE28DMNF adds up to about $1,850 in electricity over that span.
Weighing a replacement
The Cafe CVE28DMNF runs above its category average. If the refrigerator you actually own is older still, likely well past ENERGY STAR's efficiency baseline when it was made, a current certified model could cost meaningfully less than this model's $142/year every year.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
The Cafe CVE28DMNF already costs $142/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
Ranked 4,629 of 4,704, the Cafe CVE28DMNF 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 757 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.