CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES at 275 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
That $52 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 CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES compares to other refrigerators
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 28.8% less, ranking 1,533 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $21/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES on that list: Zephyr PRRD24C2AS-OD ($52/yr, 274 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while Insignia NS-OCF55xxxxxx (x = a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, blank) ($52/yr, 275 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Same brand, different models
Of the 2 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators CELLARA BY ELEMENT makes, the EBS24BES costs the most to run, $23/year more than CELLARA BY ELEMENT's cheapest, the EWD24BES.
CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES over 13 years
Over the 13-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES costs roughly $672 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Weighing a replacement
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $52/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the CELLARA BY ELEMENT EBS24BES 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
The full Refrigerator category page shows all 4,704 refrigerators ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance. The 275 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.