What the Midea MLH52N4AWW costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the Midea MLH52N4AWW at 180 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.
The $34 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Where this ranks
That's 46.3% above the washing machine category average of 123 kWh/yr, and ranks 363 of 398 certified washing machines for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. Every one of the 398 currently-certified washing machines feeds that average, putting this model about $11/year over it. See how it's calculated on the how it is calculated page.
The closest alternatives by cost
Sorted by running cost among washing machines, one step cheaper is LG WT7050C* ($34/yr, 180 kWh/yr), and one step pricier is Electrolux ELVW7405AW ($36/yr, 189 kWh/yr).
Same brand, different models
Midea makes 38 ENERGY STAR certified washing machines; this one ranks 25 of 38 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the MLH25N7BWW at $12/yr, and its priciest, the MLTW62M7ACG at $40/yr.
Midea MLH52N4AWW over 10 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical washing machine's service life at 10 years; run the Midea MLH52N4AWW that long and it costs about $338 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
At $34/year, this is on the expensive side for a washing machine; the cheapest certified model in this category runs about $7/year, worth knowing before buying either the Midea MLH52N4AWW or its replacement.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Midea MLH52N4AWW ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a washing machine, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
The data behind this page
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. The full Washing Machine category page shows all 398 washing machines ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance.