upstreman BD147-Black: running cost
At 333 kWh/yr, the upstreman BD147-Black's ENERGY STAR certification puts it cheaper than most models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
That $63 is priced at 18.8¢/kWh, the average of all 51 state rates this site tracks. Your own state's rate is one click away.
Efficient, or not, for a refrigerator
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 13.7% less, ranking 2,247 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 4,704 refrigerators ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $10/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the upstreman BD147-Black: upstreman BD147 ($63/yr, 333 kWh/yr), then upstreman BD147-White ($63/yr, 333 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Ranked 106 of upstreman's 115 certified refrigerators, this sits between the FR17-Blue ($39/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the FD182-# ($86/yr, its priciest).
upstreman BD147-Black over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the upstreman BD147-Black that long and it costs about $814 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $63/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the upstreman BD147-Black ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
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.