What the Vissani MDFD18SS5 costs to run
At 465 kWh/yr, the Vissani MDFD18SS5's ENERGY STAR certification puts it more expensive than most models in its category to run against every other certified refrigerator.
The $87 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Vissani MDFD18SS5 against the category
That's 20.5% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,337 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 $15/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Vissani MDFDBM18**6 ($87/yr, 465 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Vissani MDFD18SS5. TRUARCTIC TMRFD1830SS ($87/yr, 465 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Vissani lineup
Vissani makes 112 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 107 of 112 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the HVR32GSEF at $41/yr, and its priciest, the MDBF18SS at $103/yr.
Vissani MDFD18SS5 over 13 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the Vissani MDFD18SS5 that long and it costs about $1,136 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
At $87/year, this is on the expensive side for a refrigerator; the cheapest certified model in this category runs about $8/year, worth knowing before buying either the Vissani MDFD18SS5 or its replacement.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
The Vissani MDFD18SS5 already costs $87/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
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 465 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.