Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ: running cost
At 495 kWh/yr, the Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
That $93 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 Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ compares to other refrigerators
The category average is 386 kWh/yr; this model runs 28.2% above it, ranking 3,481 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $20/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ on that list: Whirlpool WRB543CMJ ($93/yr, 494 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while Fisher & Paykel RF135BU ($93/yr, 495 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Within the Fisher & Paykel lineup
Ranked 30 of Fisher & Paykel's 48 certified refrigerators, this sits between the RS2435V2 ($8/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the RF203QDUVX1 ($106/yr, its priciest).
Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ that long and it costs about $1,210 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Fisher & Paykel RF135BJ 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 $93/year every year.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
At $93/year just to run, a refrigerator is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
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 495 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.