Frigidaire FHWW245WE2: running cost
The Frigidaire FHWW245WE2 is certified by ENERGY STAR at 1,353.4 kWh a year, one of the more expensive models in its category to run among room air conditioners currently certified.
The $254 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 124.4% above the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 425 of 447 certified room air conditioners for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 447 currently-certified room air conditioners feeds that average, putting this model about $141/year over it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.
The closest alternatives by cost
Sorted by running cost among room air conditioners, one step cheaper is Comfort Aire RADS-253R03 ($254/yr, 1,353.4 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Keplerx KBRC24RSVE2 ($254/yr, 1,353.4 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Among Frigidaire's 6 certified room air conditioners, this is the priciest to run, $179/year over the FHWW085WE1, the brand's cheapest.
Cost over its typical lifespan
Over the 10-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the Frigidaire FHWW245WE2 costs roughly $2,544 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Weighing a replacement
The Frigidaire FHWW245WE2 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 $254/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Frigidaire FHWW245WE2 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a room air conditioner, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
The data behind this page
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 1,353.4 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.