upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue Running Cost (Refrigerator)
upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue: running cost
The upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue is certified by ENERGY STAR at 258 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $49 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue against the category
That's 33.2% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 1,228 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 $24/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
upstreman BR321 Pro-Coral ($49/yr, 258 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue. upstreman BR321 Pro-Black ($49/yr, 258 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
upstreman makes 115 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 75 of 115 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the FR17-Blue at $39/yr, and its priciest, the FD182-# at $86/yr.
Cost over its typical lifespan
13 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $49/year, the upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue adds up to about $631 in electricity over that span.
Shopping for a new one
The upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue is already efficient for its category at $49/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new refrigerator costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Ranked 1,228 of 4,704, the upstreman BR321 Pro-Blue 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 258 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.