DELLA 048-TL-W8KI Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
Running cost for the DELLA 048-TL-W8KI
ENERGY STAR certifies the DELLA 048-TL-W8KI at 400 kWh/yr, one of the cheaper models in its category to run for its category.
The $75 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
DELLA 048-TL-W8KI against the category
That's 33.7% below the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 67 of 447 certified room air conditioners for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every room air conditioner ENERGY STAR currently certifies (447 models), not an outside benchmark, about $38/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
ELEMENT EHWR08BE ($75/yr, 400 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the DELLA 048-TL-W8KI. Danby DAC080EBIBDB ($75/yr, 400 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the DELLA lineup
DELLA sells 3 certified room air conditioners; this one runs cheapest of them, $38/year under the 048-TL-W12KI, its priciest.
What this adds up to over time
10 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $75/year, the DELLA 048-TL-W8KI adds up to about $752 in electricity over that span.
Shopping for a new one
The DELLA 048-TL-W8KI is already efficient for its category at $75/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new room air conditioner costs to run.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the DELLA 048-TL-W8KI ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a room air conditioner, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
The full Room Air Conditioner category page shows all 447 room air conditioners ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance. The 400 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.