Senville SENWH-HP50US Running Cost (Electric Water Heater)
Running cost for the Senville SENWH-HP50US
ENERGY STAR certifies the Senville SENWH-HP50US at 855 kWh/yr, cheaper than most models in its category to run for its category.
The $161 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Senville SENWH-HP50US against the category
That's 22.6% below the electric water heater category average of 1,105 kWh/yr, and ranks 88 of 596 certified electric water heaters for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every electric water heater ENERGY STAR currently certifies (596 models), not an outside benchmark, about $47/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
STEALTH ACIQ-50G-HP-WH ($161/yr, 855 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Senville SENWH-HP50US. Senville SENWH-HP50 ($161/yr, 855 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
Senville makes 4 ENERGY STAR certified electric water heaters; this one ranks 2 of 4 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the SENWH-HP50 at $161/yr, and its priciest, the SENWH-HP65US at $233/yr.
What this adds up to over time
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical electric water heater's service life at 11 years; run the Senville SENWH-HP50US that long and it costs about $1,768 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The Senville SENWH-HP50US is already efficient for its category at $161/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new electric water heater costs to run.
Worth comparing a few current certified models before deciding.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Senville SENWH-HP50US ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a electric water heater, 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 Electric Water Heater category page shows all 596 electric water heaters ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance.