Running cost for the upstreman BR321-Vintage Purple
The upstreman BR321-Vintage Purple is certified by ENERGY STAR at 218 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
That $41 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.
How the upstreman BR321-Vintage Purple compares to other refrigerators
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 43.5% less, ranking 670 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $32/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the upstreman BR321-Vintage Purple on that list: upstreman BR321-Vintage Orange ($41/yr, 218 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while upstreman BR321-Vintage Red ($41/yr, 218 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Same brand, different models
Ranked 39 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 BR321-Vintage Purple 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 BR321-Vintage Purple that long and it costs about $533 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $41/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the upstreman BR321-Vintage Purple ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
How this was checked
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.