Toscana FD225SS Running Cost (Refrigerator)
What the Toscana FD225SS costs to run
The Toscana FD225SS is certified by ENERGY STAR at 588 kWh a year, one of the more expensive models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $111 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Toscana FD225SS against the category
That's 52.3% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 4,014 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 $38/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Zline RFM-36 ($111/yr, 588 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Toscana FD225SS. Toscana FD225BSS ($111/yr, 588 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Toscana lineup
Among Toscana's 4 certified refrigerators, this is the priciest to run, $41/year over the 51F-IK5-BCD512, the brand's cheapest.
Toscana FD225SS over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Toscana FD225SS that long and it costs about $1,437 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
At $111/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 Toscana FD225SS or its replacement.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Toscana FD225SS ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. 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.