ELEMENT EHWR14BE Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
Running cost for the ELEMENT EHWR14BE
The ELEMENT EHWR14BE is certified by ENERGY STAR at 700 kWh a year, more expensive than most models in its category to run among room air conditioners currently certified.
That $132 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.
Efficient, or not, for a room air conditioner
The category average is 603 kWh/yr; this model runs 16.1% above it, ranking 357 of 447 room air conditioners tracked here for running cost. That average is drawn from all 447 room air conditioners ENERGY STAR currently certifies, not an outside number, a $18/year gap from this model at the national rate. Full sourcing is in the sourcing notes.
Right next to it on the list
A rank or two either side of the ELEMENT EHWR14BE: Danby DAC140EBIBDB ($132/yr, 700 kWh/yr), then Frigidaire FHWW145WE1 ($132/yr, 700 kWh/yr).
Within the ELEMENT lineup
Of the 4 ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners ELEMENT makes, the EHWR14BE costs the most to run, $56/year more than ELEMENT's cheapest, the EHWR08BE.
ELEMENT EHWR14BE over 10 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical room air conditioner's service life at 10 years; run the ELEMENT EHWR14BE that long and it costs about $1,316 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The ELEMENT EHWR14BE runs above its category average. If the room air conditioner 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 $132/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners before buying.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the ELEMENT EHWR14BE ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a room air conditioner, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
Nothing here is estimated from a nameplate wattage; the 700 kWh/yr is ENERGY STAR's own certified figure for this model. 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.