Cafe CVE28DPNG Running Cost (Refrigerator)

Name: Cafe CVE28DPNG
Brand: Cafe

What the Cafe CVE28DPNG costs to run

One of the more expensive models in its category to run

$142/year at 18.8¢/kWh, the 51-state average

ENERGY STAR certifies the Cafe CVE28DPNG at 757 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.

$0.39per day

$11.86per month

757kWh per year, certified

$1,850over a 13-yr lifespan

Swap in your own state’s rate

The $142 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.

Cafe CVE28DPNG against the category

That's 96.1% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 4,636 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 CVE28DP2NH ($142/yr, 757 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Cafe CVE28DPNG. Cafe CVE28DPNF ($142/yr, 757 kWh/yr) costs a little less.

Comparing Cafe's own models

Cafe makes 35 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 28 of 35 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the CCP06BPP at $52/yr, and its priciest, the CVE28DP4NH at $142/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 Cafe CVE28DPNG that long and it costs about $1,850 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.

Weighing a replacement

At $142/year, this is on the expensive side for a refrigerator; the cheapest certified model in this category runs about $8/year, worth knowing before buying either the Cafe CVE28DPNG or its replacement.

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

Protecting what you have

A refrigerator like the Cafe CVE28DPNG is a real household expense whether or not it needs replacing yet; a protection plan is one way to budget for a repair rather than a full replacement.

Sourcing

Ranked 4,636 of 4,704, the Cafe CVE28DPNG 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.