ELEMENT ERBM19 Running Cost (Refrigerator)
ELEMENT ERBM19: running cost
At 550 kWh/yr, the ELEMENT ERBM19's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
That $103 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.
How the ELEMENT ERBM19 compares to other refrigerators
The category average is 386 kWh/yr; this model runs 42.5% above it, ranking 3,742 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $31/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the ELEMENT ERBM19 on that list: Danby DBM187E1WDB ($103/yr, 550 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while ELEMENT ERBM19CBS-CA ($103/yr, 550 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Same brand, different models
Ranked 33 of ELEMENT's 34 certified refrigerators, this sits between the EUF14CE ($38/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the ERBM19CBS-CA ($103/yr, its priciest).
ELEMENT ERBM19 over 13 years
Over the 13-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the ELEMENT ERBM19 costs roughly $1,344 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Weighing a replacement
The ELEMENT ERBM19 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 $103/year every year.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the ELEMENT ERBM19 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
How this was checked
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 550 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.