What the Continental CE-FRF172 costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Continental CE-FRF172 at 539 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.
The $101 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 39.6% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,636 of 4,704 certified refrigerators for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 4,704 currently-certified refrigerators feeds that average, putting this model about $29/year over it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.
The closest alternatives by cost
Sorted by running cost among refrigerators, one step cheaper is Fisher & Paykel RF170B***U** ($101/yr, 538 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is FORZA FF36FBMS ($101/yr, 539 kWh/yr).
Within the Continental lineup
The Continental CE-FRF172 is the only refrigerator from Continental that ENERGY STAR currently certifies, so there's no same-brand model to weigh it against here, only the full refrigerator category.
Continental CE-FRF172 over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Continental CE-FRF172 that long and it costs about $1,317 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Continental CE-FRF172 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 $101/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Continental CE-FRF172 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
The data behind this page
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. 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.