Kenmore 6938 Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the Kenmore 6938
The Kenmore 6938 is certified by ENERGY STAR at 584 kWh a year, one of the more expensive models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $110 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 51.3% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,928 of 4,704 certified refrigerators for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 4,704 currently-certified refrigerators feeds that average, putting this model about $37/year over it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.
The closest alternatives by cost
Sorted by running cost among refrigerators, one step cheaper is ILVE RT9020BFBM ($110/yr, 584 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Kenmore 7934 ($110/yr, 584 kWh/yr).
Within the Kenmore lineup
Kenmore makes 93 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 85 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 6938 that long and it costs about $1,427 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Kenmore 6938 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 $110/year every year.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Kenmore 6938 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
The data behind this page
Ranked 3,928 of 4,704, the Kenmore 6938 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 584 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.