Comfee CRM17S3AST Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Comfee CRM17S3AST: running cost
The Comfee CRM17S3AST is certified by ENERGY STAR at 246 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
That $46 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 Comfee CRM17S3AST compares to other refrigerators
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 36.3% less, ranking 1,065 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $26/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the Comfee CRM17S3AST on that list: Comfee CRM17S3ABB ($46/yr, 246 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while Emerson CR1700B ($46/yr, 246 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Comparing Comfee's own models
Ranked 13 of Comfee's 26 certified refrigerators, this sits between the CERV113B0A ($25/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the CERT07B0AST ($65/yr, its priciest).
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 Comfee CRM17S3AST that long and it costs about $601 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $46/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 Comfee CRM17S3AST 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 246 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.