Summit LBF12PL Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Summit LBF12PL: running cost
At 399 kWh/yr, the Summit LBF12PL's ENERGY STAR certification puts it about average for its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $75 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Summit LBF12PL against the category
That's 3.4% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 2,938 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 $2/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Summit LBF12SS ($75/yr, 399 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Summit LBF12PL. Summit LBF12B ($75/yr, 399 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Summit lineup
Summit makes 148 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 94 of 148 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the ADRD15 at $48/yr, and its priciest, the S4D18WIM at $102/yr.
What this adds up to over time
Over the 13-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Summit LBF12PL costs roughly $975 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Weighing a replacement
The Summit LBF12PL is already efficient for its category at $75/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new refrigerator costs to run.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
The Summit LBF12PL already costs $75/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
Ranked 2,938 of 4,704, the Summit LBF12PL 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 399 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.