Running cost for the upstreman FR17-Orange
At 208 kWh/yr, the upstreman FR17-Orange's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $39 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
upstreman FR17-Orange against the category
That's 46.1% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 448 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 $33/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
upstreman FR17-Purple ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the upstreman FR17-Orange. upstreman FR17-Indigo ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
upstreman makes 115 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 4 of 115 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the FR17-Blue at $39/yr, and its priciest, the FD182-# at $86/yr.
upstreman FR17-Orange 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 FR17-Orange that long and it costs about $508 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The upstreman FR17-Orange is already efficient for its category at $39/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 FR17-Orange 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.