GE GYE18JYL****: running cost
ENERGY STAR certifies the GE GYE18JYL**** at 613 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.
That $115 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
The category average is 386 kWh/yr; this model runs 58.8% above it, ranking 4,130 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 $43/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 GE GYE18JYL****: GE GYE18JSL**** ($115/yr, 613 kWh/yr), then GE Profile PYE18HML**** ($115/yr, 613 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Ranked 104 of GE's 131 certified refrigerators, this sits between the GME04GGK**** ($43/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the GFE28GYN**** ($136/yr, its priciest).
Cost over its typical lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the GE GYE18JYL**** that long and it costs about $1,498 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The GE GYE18JYL**** 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 $115/year every year.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
The GE GYE18JYL**** already costs $115/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
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 4,130 of 4,704, the GE GYE18JYL**** sits in the middle of the refrigerator category, see the guide to why your state changes this number for the other half of the math.