What the Frigidaire FHWW105WE1 costs to run
At 500 kWh/yr, the Frigidaire FHWW105WE1's ENERGY STAR certification puts it cheaper than most models in its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
The $94 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Frigidaire FHWW105WE1 against the category
That's 17.1% below the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 169 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 $19/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Frigidaire Gallery GHWQ103WC1 ($94/yr, 500 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Frigidaire FHWW105WE1. Friedrich CCV10A10A ($94/yr, 500 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Frigidaire lineup
Frigidaire makes 6 ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners; this one ranks 2 of 6 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the FHWW085WE1 at $75/yr, and its priciest, the FHWW245WE2 at $254/yr.
Cost over its typical lifespan
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical room air conditioner's service life at 10 years; run the Frigidaire FHWW105WE1 that long and it costs about $940 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Frigidaire FHWW105WE1 is already efficient for its category at $94/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 Frigidaire FHWW105WE1 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
Ranked 169 of 447, the Frigidaire FHWW105WE1 sits in the middle of the room air conditioner category, see the guide to why your state changes this number for the other half of the math. The 500 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.