Running cost for the Premium Levella PRF446300HS
At 252 kWh/yr, the Premium Levella PRF446300HS's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
That $47 is priced at 18.8¢/kWh, the average of all 51 state rates this site tracks. Your own state's rate is one click away.
Efficient, or not, for a refrigerator
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 34.7% less, ranking 1,162 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 4,704 refrigerators ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $25/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the Premium Levella PRF446300HS: Galanz BC-75S-62H ($47/yr, 252 kWh/yr), then Vissani HVAR26GBE ($47/yr, 252 kWh/yr).
Within the Premium Levella lineup
Ranked 9 of Premium Levella's 26 certified refrigerators, this sits between the PRF165400XW ($39/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the PRNIM20***** ($88/yr, its priciest).
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 Premium Levella PRF446300HS that long and it costs about $616 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $47/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the Premium Levella PRF446300HS ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
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 252 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.