Midea MAW14RV1CCWT Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
Midea MAW14RV1CCWT: running cost
At 700 kWh/yr, the Midea MAW14RV1CCWT's ENERGY STAR certification puts it more expensive than most models in its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
That $132 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
The category average is 603 kWh/yr; this model runs 16.1% above it, ranking 365 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 $18/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 MAW14RV1CCWT: Midea MAW14R1VWT ($132/yr, 700 kWh/yr), then Midea MAW14RV1CWT ($132/yr, 700 kWh/yr).
Comparing Midea's own models
Ranked 136 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).
What this adds up to over time
10 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $132/year, the Midea MAW14RV1CCWT adds up to about $1,316 in electricity over that span.
Is it worth replacing?
The Midea MAW14RV1CCWT runs above its category average. If the room air conditioner you actually own is older still, likely well past ENERGY STAR's efficiency baseline when it was made, a current certified model could cost meaningfully less than this model's $132/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners before buying.
If you're keeping it
Whether or not the Midea MAW14RV1CCWT ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a room air conditioner, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Where this number comes from
Ranked 365 of 447, the Midea MAW14RV1CCWT 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. The 700 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.