TCL H24W4KW-CA Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
Running cost for the TCL H24W4KW-CA
The TCL H24W4KW-CA is certified by ENERGY STAR at 1,417.3 kWh a year, one of the more expensive models in its category to run among room air conditioners currently certified.
The $266 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
TCL H24W4KW-CA against the category
That's 135% above the room air conditioner category average of 603 kWh/yr, and ranks 439 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 $153/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
TCL T24WQ2S ($266/yr, 1,417.3 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the TCL H24W4KW-CA. TCL H24W4KW ($266/yr, 1,417.3 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Comparing TCL's own models
TCL makes 59 ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners; this one ranks 58 of 59 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the T05WV9M at $51/yr, and its priciest, the T24WQ2S at $266/yr.
What this adds up to over time
Over the 10-year service life NAHB reports for this category, running the TCL H24W4KW-CA costs roughly $2,665 in electricity, separate from the purchase price.
Shopping for a new one
The TCL H24W4KW-CA 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 $266/year every year.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified room air conditioners before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the TCL H24W4KW-CA 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
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. 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.