Running cost for the Kenmore 405.7562#42#
The Kenmore 405.7562#42# is certified by ENERGY STAR at 743 kWh a year, one of the more expensive models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $140 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Kenmore 405.7562#42# against the category
That's 92.5% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 4,589 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 $67/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Kenmore 405.75625421 ($140/yr, 743 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Kenmore 405.7562#42#. LG LF25G8330* ($139/yr, 737 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Kenmore makes 93 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 91 of 93 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the 17764 at $39/yr, and its priciest, the 46-75625 at $140/yr.
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 Kenmore 405.7562#42# that long and it costs about $1,816 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Kenmore 405.7562#42# 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 $140/year every year.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
A refrigerator like the Kenmore 405.7562#42# is a real household expense whether or not it needs replacing yet; a protection plan is one way to budget for a repair rather than a full replacement.
Sourcing
Ranked 4,589 of 4,704, the Kenmore 405.7562#42# 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. The 743 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.