Magic Chef HMR440BE: running cost
At 228 kWh/yr, the Magic Chef HMR440BE's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $43 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Magic Chef HMR440BE against the category
That's 40.9% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 900 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 $30/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Magic Chef HMR440SE ($43/yr, 228 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Magic Chef HMR440BE. Magic Chef HMBR440WEF ($43/yr, 228 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Magic Chef lineup
Magic Chef makes 121 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 38 of 121 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the MCR16CHB at $39/yr, and its priciest, the MCBM920W1 at $70/yr.
What this adds up to over time
Over the 13-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Magic Chef HMR440BE costs roughly $557 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Is it worth replacing?
The Magic Chef HMR440BE is already efficient for its category at $43/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new refrigerator costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
The Magic Chef HMR440BE already costs $43/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
Ranked 900 of 4,704, the Magic Chef HMR440BE 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 228 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.