Crosley CRHS12SS-LH Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Crosley CRHS12SS-LH: running cost
ENERGY STAR certifies the Crosley CRHS12SS-LH at 310 kWh/yr, cheaper than most models in its category to run for its category.
That $58 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 19.7% less, ranking 1,816 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 $14/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 Crosley CRHS12SS-LH: Avanti FF116B0W ($58/yr, 310 kWh/yr), then Crosley CRHS12SW-LH ($58/yr, 310 kWh/yr).
Within the Crosley lineup
Ranked 9 of Crosley's 35 certified refrigerators, this sits between the ARX443UW ($42/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the CFEH2868A ($136/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 Crosley CRHS12SS-LH that long and it costs about $758 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $58/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
The Crosley CRHS12SS-LH already costs $58/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Where this number comes from
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 310 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.