Nate Nagel wrote:
subject says all...

in an effort to see how much a new fridge would really be worth in terms
of energy savings I got a Kill-A-Watt (found one online under $30)
hooked it up to fridge. In 24 hours of use it's apparently used almost
2.5 kWh - that's over 900 kWh/year!

I see most of the fridges that I'm considering are rated at about 500
kWh/year give or take.

do both of these numbers seem reasonable? A new 25 ft^3 "energy star"
fridge would use a little more than half as much juice as my 20 year old
18 ft^3 clunker?

If this is true, I won't feel nearly so badly about spending the $$$...

nate


We replaced a similar age old fridge with a new one and there was a
significant drop in power use. Also the new fridge has much more uniform
temperature throughout the box so you can keep the temp low without
freezing stuff. So as a side benefit stuff lasts longer and it is now
very unusual to have to discard food.