Samsung RF70H30KE Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Samsung RF70H30KE costs to run
The Samsung RF70H30KE is certified by ENERGY STAR at 689 kWh a year, one of the more expensive models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $130 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 78.5% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 4,433 of 4,704 certified refrigerators for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 4,704 currently-certified refrigerators feeds that average, putting this model about $57/year over it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.
The closest alternatives by cost
Sorted by running cost among refrigerators, one step cheaper is Midea MRS26D7AST ($129/yr, 686 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Samsung RS27T5561 ($130/yr, 691 kWh/yr).
Within the Samsung lineup
Samsung makes 101 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 69 of 101 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the RT18DG6300 at $63/yr, and its priciest, the RF32CG5B30 at $148/yr.
Samsung RF70H30KE 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 RF70H30KE that long and it costs about $1,684 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Samsung RF70H30KE 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 $130/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
The Samsung RF70H30KE already costs $130/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
The data behind this page
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 689 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.