upstreman FR17 Pro-Pink: running cost
The upstreman FR17 Pro-Pink 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-Pink against the category
That's 36.5% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 1,054 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-Purple ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the upstreman FR17 Pro-Pink. upstreman FR17 Pro-Orange ($46/yr, 245 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the upstreman lineup
upstreman makes 115 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 67 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-Pink over 13 years
Over the 13-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the upstreman FR17 Pro-Pink costs roughly $599 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Shopping for a new one
The upstreman FR17 Pro-Pink 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
Whether or not the upstreman FR17 Pro-Pink ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a refrigerator, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
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. The 245 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.