Miele KFN 9859 iDE li Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the Miele KFN 9859 iDE li
At 530 kWh/yr, the Miele KFN 9859 iDE li's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $100 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Miele KFN 9859 iDE li against the category
That's 37.3% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,603 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 above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Miele KFN 9859 iDE re ($100/yr, 530 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Miele KFN 9859 iDE li. Liebherr HCB 1591G ($100/yr, 530 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Miele's own models
Miele makes 58 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 35 of 58 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the KWTUS 7172 F at $19/yr, and its priciest, the KFFD 6721 at $123/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 Miele KFN 9859 iDE li that long and it costs about $1,295 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Miele KFN 9859 iDE li 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 $100/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Miele KFN 9859 iDE li 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 530 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.