Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1 Running Cost (Room Air…
Running cost for the Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1
At 404.8 kWh/yr, the Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the cheaper models in its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
The $76 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1 against the category
That's 32.9% below the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 122 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 $37/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1N ($76/yr, 404.8 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1. Midea MAH09W1AGR ($76/yr, 404.8 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Midea lineup
Midea makes 161 ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners; this one ranks 50 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
10 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $76/year, the Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1 adds up to about $761 in electricity over that span.
Shopping for a new one
The Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1 is already efficient for its category at $76/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 MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1 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
Ranked 122 of 447, the Midea MWCUPWHP-09HEFN8-BCL1 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 404.8 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.