upstreman FR17 Pro-Mint Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the upstreman FR17 Pro-Mint
The upstreman FR17 Pro-Mint 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-Mint against the category
That's 36.5% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 1,052 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-Orange ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the upstreman FR17 Pro-Mint. upstreman FR17 Pro-Green ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the upstreman lineup
upstreman makes 115 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 65 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-Mint over 13 years
13 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $46/year, the upstreman FR17 Pro-Mint adds up to about $599 in electricity over that span.
Is it worth replacing?
The upstreman FR17 Pro-Mint 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.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the upstreman FR17 Pro-Mint 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.