HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU: running cost
At 586.7 kWh/yr, the HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU's ENERGY STAR certification puts it about average for its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
The $110 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU against the category
That's 2.7% below the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 250 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 $3/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Midea 1010451379 ($111/yr, 592.1 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU. GREE GJC12BU-A6DRNJ2A ($110/yr, 586.7 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the HOUSE KOBO lineup
Among HOUSE KOBO's 3 certified room air conditioners, this is the priciest to run, $37/year over the KOBOGJC08BU, the brand's cheapest.
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 HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU that long and it costs about $1,103 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU is already efficient for its category at $110/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new room air conditioner costs to run.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the HOUSE KOBO KOBOGJC12BU 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
At rank 250 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 586.7 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.