Refrigerator Savings

Looking for an easy way to save energy and cut out the equipvalent of 1 to 2 power bills a year? You may be surprised to learn just how many energy dollars you are wasting by keeping an old refrigerator or freezer plugged in long past its useful life.

U.S. households have 44.5 million fridges that are over 10 years old, 12.7 million of which are secondary units, often in storage buildings and garages. Almost a quarter of these fridges are at least 20 years old! Fridges made before 1993 use more than twice the energy of a new Energy Star qualified model.

The table below shows how much you could save annually by taking an inefficient refrigerator or freezer out of service:

Find out how much energy and money your old fridge or freezer is costing you with Energy Star's refrigerator/freezer calculator.