What the Commercial Cool CCR1800GS costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Commercial Cool CCR1800GS at 367 kWh/yr, about average for its category to run for its category.
That $69 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.
Efficient, or not, for a refrigerator
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 4.9% less, ranking 2,650 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 4,704 refrigerators ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $4/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the Commercial Cool CCR1800GS: Commercial Cool CCR1800GB ($69/yr, 367 kWh/yr), then Commercial Cool CCR1800GW ($69/yr, 367 kWh/yr).
Within the Commercial Cool lineup
Ranked 11 of Commercial Cool's 21 certified refrigerators, this sits between the CCUK12W ($41/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the CCR2000GIMW ($88/yr, its priciest).
Commercial Cool CCR1800GS over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Commercial Cool CCR1800GS that long and it costs about $897 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $69/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the Commercial Cool CCR1800GS ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
Nothing here is estimated from a nameplate wattage; the 367 kWh/yr is ENERGY STAR's own certified figure for this model. 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.