Summit LRF4D184SSIM Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Summit LRF4D184SSIM: running cost
At 541 kWh/yr, the Summit LRF4D184SSIM's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $102 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Summit LRF4D184SSIM against the category
That's 40.2% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,688 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 LRF4D18PLIM ($102/yr, 541 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Summit LRF4D184SSIM. Summit LRF4D183WIM ($102/yr, 541 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Summit makes 148 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 143 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 LRF4D184SSIM that long and it costs about $1,322 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Summit LRF4D184SSIM 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 $102/year every year.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
The Summit LRF4D184SSIM already costs $102/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
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.