Midea MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7 Running Cost (Room Air…
Running cost for the Midea MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7
The Midea MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7 is certified by ENERGY STAR at 427 kWh a year, one of the cheaper models in its category to run among room air conditioners currently certified.
That $80 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
Against the category average of 603 kWh/yr, this model uses 29.2% less, ranking 136 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 $33/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 MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7: Midea MAW08S1KWT-A ($80/yr, 427 kWh/yr), then Seasons SW08VB1 ($80/yr, 427 kWh/yr).
Comparing Midea's own models
Ranked 58 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).
Midea MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7 over 10 years
10 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $80/year, the Midea MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7 adds up to about $803 in electricity over that span.
Is it worth replacing?
Efficient as certified room air conditioners go, $80/year is a reasonable baseline if you're comparing what else is on the market.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
The Midea MWEUWA-08CRFN8-BCM7 already costs $80/year to run; a repair bill on top of that is the kind of expense a protection plan exists to smooth out.
Where this number comes from
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. The 427 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.