upstreman FR17-Vintage Purple Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the upstreman FR17-Vintage Purple
ENERGY STAR certifies the upstreman FR17-Vintage Purple at 208 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
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.
How the upstreman FR17-Vintage Purple compares to other refrigerators
Against the category average of 386 kWh/yr, this model uses 46.1% less, ranking 455 of 4,704 refrigerators tracked here for running cost. 4,704 certified refrigerators, one average, about $33/year of daylight between it and this model; the full methodology has the rest.
Neighbouring models
Right next to the upstreman FR17-Vintage Purple on that list: upstreman FR17-Vintage Orange ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr) runs slightly less, while upstreman FR17-Vintage Red ($39/yr, 208 kWh/yr) runs slightly more.
Same brand, different models
Ranked 11 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).
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 Purple that long and it costs about $508 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified refrigerators go, $39/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
$39/year to run is the predictable cost of the upstreman FR17-Vintage Purple; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
How this was checked
Ranked 455 of 4,704, the upstreman FR17-Vintage Purple 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.