Midea MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9 Running Cost (Room Air…
Running cost for the Midea MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9
At 755.4 kWh/yr, the Midea MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9's ENERGY STAR certification puts it one of the more expensive models in its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
The $142 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Midea MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9 against the category
That's 25.3% above the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 380 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 $29/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Seasons ST14VA2 ($142/yr, 755.4 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Midea MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9. Midea MAT14R2SWTK ($142/yr, 755.4 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Midea lineup
Midea makes 161 ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners; this one ranks 144 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 MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9 that long and it costs about $1,420 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Shopping for a new one
The Midea MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9 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 $142/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners before buying.
Protecting what you have
$142/year to run is the predictable cost of the Midea MWEUTW-14CRFN8-MCM9; a protection plan covers the unpredictable one, a repair bill.
Sourcing
At rank 380 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 755.4 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.