Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4 Running Cost (Room Air…
Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4: running cost
The Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4 is certified by ENERGY STAR at 625 kWh a year, about average for its category to run among room air conditioners currently certified.
The $118 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4 against the category
That's 3.6% above the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 326 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 $4/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Friedrich WCVT10B10A ($119/yr, 634.6 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4. Midea MAW12HV1KWT-A ($118/yr, 625 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing Midea's own models
Midea makes 161 ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners; this one ranks 122 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.
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 Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4 that long and it costs about $1,175 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4 is already efficient for its category at $118/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new room air conditioner costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Midea MWAUQB-12HRFN8-BCN4 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 326 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 625 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.