upstreman FR17-Vintage Blue Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the upstreman FR17-Vintage Blue
The upstreman FR17-Vintage Blue is certified by ENERGY STAR at 208 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among refrigerators currently certified.
That $39 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.
Efficient, or not, for a refrigerator
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 46.1% less, ranking 451 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 4,704 refrigerators ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $33/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the upstreman FR17-Vintage Blue: upstreman FR17-Red ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr), then upstreman FR17-Vintage Green ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Ranked 7 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 FR17-Vintage 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-Vintage Blue that long and it costs about $508 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $39/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
If you're keeping it
$39/year to run is the predictable cost of the upstreman FR17-Vintage Blue; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
Where this number comes from
Ranked 451 of 4,704, the upstreman FR17-Vintage Blue sits in the middle of the refrigerator category, see the guide to why your state changes this number for the other half of the math. The 208 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.