Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5- Running Cost…
Running cost for the Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5-
At 245 kWh/yr, the Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5-'s ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $46 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5- against the category
That's 36.5% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 1,024 of 4,704 certified refrigerators for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every refrigerator ENERGY STAR currently certifies (4,704 models), not an outside benchmark, about $27/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Liebherr MRB 3010 ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5-. Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24R1-5- ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet makes 13 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 5 of 13 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the UKS15W1-5- at $19/yr, and its priciest, the HK24T4C-- at $52/yr.
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 Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5- that long and it costs about $599 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5- is already efficient for its category at $46/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new refrigerator costs to run.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24T1-5- ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
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 245 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.