Samsung RF70F29ME Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Samsung RF70F29ME costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Samsung RF70F29ME at 685 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.
The $129 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Samsung RF70F29ME against the category
That's 77.5% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 4,427 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 $56/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Whirlpool WRF555SDF ($129/yr, 685 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Samsung RF70F29ME. Samsung RF70F29DE ($129/yr, 685 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Samsung's own models
Samsung makes 101 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 68 of 101 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the RT18DG6300 at $63/yr, and its priciest, the RF32CG5B30 at $148/yr.
Samsung RF70F29ME over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Samsung RF70F29ME that long and it costs about $1,674 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Samsung RF70F29ME 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 $129/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
$129/year to run is the predictable cost of the Samsung RF70F29ME; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
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 685 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.