Midea MAW08RV1CWT Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
Running cost for the Midea MAW08RV1CWT
The Midea MAW08RV1CWT is certified by ENERGY STAR at 400 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among room air conditioners currently certified.
That $75 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 33.7% less, ranking 89 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 $38/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 Midea MAW08RV1CWT: Midea MAW08AV1QWT-C ($75/yr, 400 kWh/yr), then Midea MAW08S1VWT-A ($75/yr, 400 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Ranked 31 of Midea's 161 certified room air conditioners, this sits between the MWEUWA-05CRFN8-BCN4 ($49/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the MWCUWH-24CRFN8-MCM3 ($254/yr, its priciest).
Midea MAW08RV1CWT over 10 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical room air conditioner's service life at 10 years; run the Midea MAW08RV1CWT that long and it costs about $752 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified room air conditioners go, $75/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
If you're keeping it
$75/year to run is the predictable cost of the Midea MAW08RV1CWT; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
Where this number comes from
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. Ranked 89 of 447, the Midea MAW08RV1CWT 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.