GE Profile AHTR12ACH2 Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
GE Profile AHTR12ACH2: running cost
At 594.2 kWh/yr, the GE Profile AHTR12ACH2's ENERGY STAR certification puts it about average for its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
That $112 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
Against the category average of 603 kWh/yr, this model uses 1.5% less, ranking 259 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 $2/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 GE Profile AHTR12ACH2: TCL KCR-35/YXRDBp(E1/6)(080002) ($111/yr, 592.1 kWh/yr), then K�hl+ KHVS12B33B ($112/yr, 598.1 kWh/yr).
Within the GE Profile lineup
Ranked 5 of GE Profile's 9 certified room air conditioners, this sits between the PWDV08W# ($75/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the PWDV14W# ($132/yr, its priciest).
What this adds up to over time
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical room air conditioner's service life at 10 years; run the GE Profile AHTR12ACH2 that long and it costs about $1,117 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
Efficient as certified room air conditioners go, $112/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
The GE Profile AHTR12ACH2 already costs $112/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Where this number comes from
At rank 259 of 447 for running cost, see the room air conditioner category page for the rest of the field, or the guide to how much your state matters. The 594.2 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.