upstreman FR17-Vintage Green Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the upstreman FR17-Vintage Green
ENERGY STAR certifies the upstreman FR17-Vintage Green at 208 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
The $39 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
upstreman FR17-Vintage Green against the category
That's 46.1% below the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 452 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-Vintage Indigo ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the upstreman FR17-Vintage Green. upstreman FR17-Vintage Blue ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the upstreman lineup
upstreman makes 115 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 8 of 115 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the FR17-Blue at $39/yr, and its priciest, the FD182-# at $86/yr.
What this adds up to over time
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the upstreman FR17-Vintage Green that long and it costs about $508 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The upstreman FR17-Vintage Green 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.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
The upstreman FR17-Vintage Green already costs $39/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 452 of 4,704, the upstreman FR17-Vintage Green 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.