Continental Electric CE-FRF192 Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Continental Electric CE-FRF192 costs to run
At 630 kWh/yr, the Continental Electric CE-FRF192's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $118 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 63.2% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 4,190 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 $46/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 Dacor DRF42750 ($118/yr, 629 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is COSMO COS-RFFV283GHBK ($118/yr, 630 kWh/yr).
Within the Continental Electric lineup
The Continental Electric CE-FRF192 is the only refrigerator from Continental Electric that ENERGY STAR currently certifies, so there's no same-brand model to weigh it against here, only the full refrigerator category.
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 Continental Electric CE-FRF192 that long and it costs about $1,540 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Continental Electric CE-FRF192 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 $118/year every year.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
At $118/year just to run, a refrigerator is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
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. Ranked 4,190 of 4,704, the Continental Electric CE-FRF192 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.