Running cost for the upstreman BR321-Vintage Green
At 218 kWh/yr, the upstreman BR321-Vintage Green's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $41 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
upstreman BR321-Vintage Green against the category
That's 43.5% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 667 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 $32/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
upstreman BR321-Vintage Indigo ($41/yr, 218 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the upstreman BR321-Vintage Green. upstreman BR321-Vintage Blue ($41/yr, 218 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the upstreman lineup
upstreman makes 115 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 36 of 115 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the FR17-Blue at $39/yr, and its priciest, the FD182-# at $86/yr.
What this adds up to over time
Over the 13-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the upstreman BR321-Vintage Green costs roughly $533 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Weighing a replacement
The upstreman BR321-Vintage Green is already efficient for its category at $41/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
Whether or not the upstreman BR321-Vintage Green ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Ranked 667 of 4,704, the upstreman BR321-Vintage Green 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 218 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.