VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT Running Cost (Electric Water Heater)
What the VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT costs to run
ENERGY STAR certifies the VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT at 1,424 kWh/yr, one of the more expensive models in its category to run for its category.
The $268 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT against the category
That's 28.9% above the electric water heater category average of 1,105 kWh/yr, and ranks 570 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 $60/year above that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT-CN ($268/yr, 1,424 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT. Noritz NHP80 ($268/yr, 1,424 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Same brand, different models
VAUGHN THERMAL makes 13 ENERGY STAR certified electric water heaters; this one ranks 10 of 13 for running cost, between the brand's cheapest, the ME50HPT at $176/yr, and its priciest, the ME120HPT-CN at $276/yr.
VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT over 11 years
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical electric water heater's service life at 11 years; run the VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT that long and it costs about $2,945 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Weighing a replacement
The VAUGHN THERMAL ME80HPT runs above its category average. If the electric water heater 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 $268/year every year.
See what else is certified in this category before you decide.
Protecting what you have
At $268/year just to run, a electric water heater is worth protecting against an unplanned repair bill on top of that.
Sourcing
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. The 1,424 kWh/yr figure is ENERGY STAR's own certification, not a wattage estimate; exact dataset IDs are on the data sources page.