Cuisinart 043-1894-4 Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Cuisinart 043-1894-4 costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Cuisinart 043-1894-4 at 226 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
That $42 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 41.5% less, ranking 809 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 $30/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 Cuisinart 043-1894-4: Crosley ARX443UW ($42/yr, 226 kWh/yr), then Danby Designer DCR044A2 ($42/yr, 226 kWh/yr).
Within the Cuisinart lineup
Ranked 2 of Cuisinart's 3 certified refrigerators, this sits between the CCF-27 ($40/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the CCF-31 ($60/yr, its priciest).
Cost over its typical lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Cuisinart 043-1894-4 that long and it costs about $552 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $42/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
At $42/year just to run, a refrigerator is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
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 226 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.