GREE GJH09BW-A6DRNL1A Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
GREE GJH09BW-A6DRNL1A: running cost
At 461.9 kWh/yr, the GREE GJH09BW-A6DRNL1A's ENERGY STAR certification puts it cheaper than most models in its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
That $87 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 23.4% less, ranking 140 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 $27/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 GREE GJH09BW-A6DRNL1A: GE Appliances AWGP08W# ($85/yr, 454.5 kWh/yr), then Kinghome KHWA09IN ($87/yr, 461.9 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Ranked 2 of GREE's 4 certified room air conditioners, this sits between the GJC08BU-A6DRNJ2A ($73/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the GJC12BU-A6DRNJ2A ($110/yr, its priciest).
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 GREE GJH09BW-A6DRNL1A that long and it costs about $868 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified room air conditioners go, $87/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 GREE GJH09BW-A6DRNL1A already costs $87/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
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 461.9 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.