VITARA VBBM0840EWEI Running Cost (Refrigerator)
Running cost for the VITARA VBBM0840EWEI
ENERGY STAR certifies the VITARA VBBM0840EWEI at 464 kWh/yr, more expensive than most models in its category to run for its category.
The $87 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
VITARA VBBM0840EWEI against the category
That's 20.2% above the refrigerator category average of 386 kWh/yr, and ranks 3,313 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
AVIVA ARBM184FSE2 ($87/yr, 465 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the VITARA VBBM0840EWEI. KOOLMORE KM-PRTM-22 ($87/yr, 464 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
VITARA makes 84 ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators; this one ranks 45 of 84 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the VLUF1101EBE at $47/yr, and its priciest, the VFFR2103ESE at $108/yr.
Cost over its typical lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical refrigerator's service life at 13 years; run the VITARA VBBM0840EWEI that long and it costs about $1,134 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The VITARA VBBM0840EWEI runs above its category average. If the refrigerator you actually own is older still, likely well past ENERGY STAR's efficiency baseline when it was made, a current certified model could cost meaningfully less than this model's $87/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators before buying.
Protecting what you have
The VITARA VBBM0840EWEI 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
Ranked 3,313 of 4,704, the VITARA VBBM0840EWEI 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 464 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.