upstreman FR17 Pro-Blue: running cost
The upstreman FR17 Pro-Blue is certified by ENERGY STAR at 245 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
The $46 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
upstreman FR17 Pro-Blue against the category
That's 36.5% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 1,048 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 $27/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
upstreman FR17 Pro-Coral ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the upstreman FR17 Pro-Blue. upstreman FR17 Pro-Black ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the upstreman lineup
upstreman makes 115 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 61 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 Pro-Blue 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 Pro-Blue that long and it costs about $599 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The upstreman FR17 Pro-Blue is already efficient for its category at $46/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
The upstreman FR17 Pro-Blue already costs $46/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
At rank 1,048 of 4,704 for running cost, see the refrigerator category page for the rest of the field, or the guide to how much your state matters. The 245 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.