FULGOR MILANO FM4FBM24VS2 Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the FULGOR MILANO FM4FBM24VS2
The FULGOR MILANO FM4FBM24VS2 is certified by ENERGY STAR at 396 kWh a year, about average for its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
That $74 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 FULGOR MILANO FM4FBM24VS2 compares to other refrigerators
The category average is 386 kWh/yr; this model runs 2.6% above it, ranking 2,896 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $2/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the FULGOR MILANO FM4FBM24VS2 on that list: Elica ER24SRB11XVS ($74/yr, 396 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while GE GTE21GSH ($74/yr, 396 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Comparing FULGOR MILANO's own models
Ranked 6 of FULGOR MILANO's 19 certified refrigerators, this sits between the FM4CR24FBI ($55/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the FM7FBM36IFBI ($111/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 FULGOR MILANO FM4FBM24VS2 that long and it costs about $968 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $74/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 FULGOR MILANO FM4FBM24VS2 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
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. 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.