Cafe CVE28DP4NH Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Cafe CVE28DP4NH: running cost
ENERGY STAR certifies the Cafe CVE28DP4NH at 757 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.
That $142 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.
How the Cafe CVE28DP4NH compares to other refrigerators
The category average is 386 kWh/yr; this model runs 96.1% above it, ranking 4,643 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $70/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the Cafe CVE28DP4NH on that list: Cafe CVE28DP3NI ($142/yr, 757 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while Café CVE28DMND ($142/yr, 757 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Within the Cafe lineup
Of the 35 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators Cafe makes, the CVE28DP4NH costs the most to run, $91/year more than Cafe's cheapest, the CCP06BPP.
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 Cafe CVE28DP4NH that long and it costs about $1,850 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Cafe CVE28DP4NH 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.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the Cafe CVE28DP4NH ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
How this was checked
Ranked 4,643 of 4,704, the Cafe CVE28DP4NH 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.