Summit FDRD172BKIM: running cost
ENERGY STAR certifies the Summit FDRD172BKIM at 541 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.
The $102 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Summit FDRD172BKIM against the category
That's 40.2% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,683 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 $29/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Summit FDRD173SSIM ($102/yr, 541 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Summit FDRD172BKIM. Summit FDRD171WIM ($102/yr, 541 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Summit lineup
Summit makes 148 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 138 of 148 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the ADRD15 at $48/yr, and its priciest, the S4D18WIM at $102/yr.
Summit FDRD172BKIM over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Summit FDRD172BKIM that long and it costs about $1,322 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
At $102/year, this is on the expensive side for a refrigerator; the cheapest certified model in this category runs about $8/year, worth knowing before buying either the Summit FDRD172BKIM or its replacement.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Summit FDRD172BKIM ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
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 541 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.