What the Liebherr UW3710 costs to run
At 100 kWh/yr, the Liebherr UW3710's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $19 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Liebherr UW3710 against the category
That's 74.1% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 22 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 $54/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Liebherr UW3720 ($19/yr, 100 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Liebherr UW3710. Gaggenau RW204770 ($19/yr, 100 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Liebherr sells 75 certified refrigerators; this one runs cheapest of them, $98/year under the FDBHC36S, its priciest.
Cost over its typical lifespan
13 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $19/year, the Liebherr UW3710 adds up to about $244 in electricity over that span.
Weighing a replacement
The Liebherr UW3710 is already efficient for its category at $19/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 Liebherr UW3710 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 100 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.