What the Midea MAW08S1KWT-A costs to run
At 427 kWh/yr, the Midea MAW08S1KWT-A's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
The $80 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 29.2% below the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 135 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 $33/year under 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 Seasons ST08VB1 ($80/yr, 425.5 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Midea MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7 ($80/yr, 427 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Midea makes 161 ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners; this one ranks 57 of 161 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the MWEUWA-05CRFN8-BCN4 at $49/yr, and its priciest, the MWCUWH-24CRFN8-MCM3 at $254/yr.
Midea MAW08S1KWT-A 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 MAW08S1KWT-A that long and it costs about $803 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Midea MAW08S1KWT-A is already efficient for its category at $80/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 Midea MAW08S1KWT-A 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
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. 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.