What the Summit FFBF179SSIM costs to run
At 537 kWh/yr, the Summit FFBF179SSIM's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $101 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Summit FFBF179SSIM against the category
That's 39.1% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,631 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 $28/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Summit LBFD30174SSIM ($101/yr, 537 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Summit FFBF179SSIM. Forno FFFFD1786-31WHT ($101/yr, 537 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Summit makes 148 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 135 of 148 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the ADRD15 at $48/yr, and its priciest, the S4D18WIM at $102/yr.
Cost over its typical lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Summit FFBF179SSIM that long and it costs about $1,312 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Running above the category average, $101/year is exactly the kind of number that makes a newer, more efficient model pay for itself faster.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
$101/year to run is the predictable cost of the Summit FFBF179SSIM; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
Sourcing
Ranked 3,631 of 4,704, the Summit FFBF179SSIM 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 537 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.