What the Danby Designer DAR170A3* costs to run
At 289 kWh/yr, the Danby Designer DAR170A3*'s ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
That $54 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 25.1% less, ranking 1,638 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 $18/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 Danby Designer DAR170A3*: Bosch B30IR900SP ($54/yr, 289 kWh/yr), then Gaggenau RC472704 ($54/yr, 289 kWh/yr).
Within the Danby Designer lineup
Ranked 9 of Danby Designer's 12 certified refrigerators, this sits between the DCR032A2* ($41/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the DCR032C3* ($60/yr, its priciest).
What this adds up to over time
13 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $54/year, the Danby Designer DAR170A3* adds up to about $706 in electricity over that span.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $54/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
Whether or not the Danby Designer DAR170A3* 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
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 289 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.