TCL W14WC72 Running Cost (Room Air Conditioner)
Running cost for the TCL W14WC72
At 656.3 kWh/yr, the TCL W14WC72's ENERGY STAR certification puts it more expensive than most models in its category to run against every other certified room air conditioner.
That $123 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
The category average is 603 kWh/yr; this model runs 8.8% above it, ranking 348 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 $10/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 TCL W14WC72: TCL T14WV9SB ($123/yr, 656.3 kWh/yr), then TCL W14WC72-B ($123/yr, 656.3 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Ranked 49 of TCL's 59 certified room air conditioners, this sits between the T05WV9M ($51/yr, the brand's cheapest) and the T24WQ2S ($266/yr, its priciest).
TCL W14WC72 over 10 years
10 years is NAHB's typical service life for this category; at $123/year, the TCL W14WC72 adds up to about $1,234 in electricity over that span.
Shopping for a new one
The TCL W14WC72 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 $123/year every year.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
If you're keeping it
The TCL W14WC72 already costs $123/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 656.3 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.