What the ELLIPSE EFVC13S costs to run
The ELLIPSE EFVC13S is certified by ENERGY STAR at 260 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
That $49 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 32.6% less, ranking 1,296 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 $24/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 ELLIPSE EFVC13S: Dacor DRR24980*** ($49/yr, 260 kWh/yr), then ELLIPSE EFVC13W ($49/yr, 260 kWh/yr).
Within the ELLIPSE lineup
Ranked 3 of ELLIPSE's 12 certified refrigerators, this sits between the EFVC14W ($40/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the ERBM221SE ($110/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 ELLIPSE EFVC13S that long and it costs about $635 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $49/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
The ELLIPSE EFVC13S already costs $49/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 260 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.