Perlick URA24W1-5- Running Cost (Refrigerator)

Name: Perlick URA24W1-5-
Brand: Perlick

What the Perlick URA24W1-5- costs to run

One of the cheaper models in its category to run

$19/year at 18.8¢/kWh, the 51-state average

ENERGY STAR certifies the Perlick URA24W1-5- at 99 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.

$0.05per day

$1.55per month

99kWh per year, certified

$242over a 13-yr lifespan

Swap in your own state’s rate

The $19 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.

Perlick URA24W1-5- against the category

That's 74.4% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 13 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

Perlick URC24W1-5- ($19/yr, 99 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Perlick URA24W1-5-. Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet UKS24W1-5- ($19/yr, 99 kWh/yr) costs a little less.

Same brand, different models

Perlick sells 31 certified refrigerators; this one runs cheapest of them, $33/year under the HP24T4C--, its priciest.

Perlick URA24W1-5- over 13 years

NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Perlick URA24W1-5- that long and it costs about $242 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.

Is it worth replacing?

The Perlick URA24W1-5- 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

At $19/year just to run, a refrigerator is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.

Sourcing

Ranked 13 of 4,704, the Perlick URA24W1-5- 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 99 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.