What the SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA costs to run
The SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA is certified by ENERGY STAR at 263 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $49 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA against the category
That's 31.9% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 1,346 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 $23/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
FRIGIDAIRE;RCA;THOMSON EFR492-B ($50/yr, 264 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA. MicroFridge 10.0RMF4RW ($49/yr, 263 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing SAPPHIRE's own models
Among SAPPHIRE's 10 certified refrigerators, this is the priciest to run, $27/year over the SW243SZSS, the brand's cheapest.
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 SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA that long and it costs about $643 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA is already efficient for its category at $49/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new refrigerator costs to run.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Ranked 1,346 of 4,704, the SAPPHIRE SR24-SSADA 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 263 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.