Model
Electrolux ELFG7626***
Rank #524 means 523 of the 615 clothes dryer models we track cost less to run each year; the 31st efficiency percentile means it uses less energy for its size than 31% of those models.
What does the Electrolux ELFG7626*** cost to run per year?
Rank #524 of 615 puts the Electrolux ELFG7626*** among the pricier clothes dryer models we track to keep running, at roughly $128 a year. Its size-adjusted efficiency percentile of 31 suggests its capacity is doing more work than its efficiency to keep the headline cost down. Its CEF of 3.48 reflects combined energy factor, one of the class's core efficiency levers.
Immediately around it on the leaderboard, the Kenmore 405.9227## at $128/yr runs a little cheaper and the Whirlpool WGD5220LR** at $128/yr runs a little more, a sense of how tightly models are packed at this point in the ranking. A clothes dryer typically stays in service for somewhere around 13 years; over that span, the Electrolux ELFG7626***'s $128/yr adds up to roughly $1664 in electricity alone, before purchase price or repairs.
Also sold as: Electrolux EFMG427****.
By the numbers
The Electrolux ELFG7626*** normalized against its whole class, so each figure means something.
What it costs you over time
Running cost is an every-year number, so it compounds. At $128/yr, here is what the Electrolux ELFG7626*** adds up to before purchase price, water, or repairs enter the math.
Left running for a decade at today's US average rate, the Electrolux ELFG7626*** costs about $1280. That is roughly $150 more than the class median, which would run closer to $1130 over the same ten years.
How the Electrolux ELFG7626*** compares
The clothes dryer class we track runs from $23 to $128 a year. At $128/yr, it runs about $15 a year above the class median of $113, and it is about $105 a year more than the cheapest clothes dryer to run at $23.
What drives its running cost
At 8 cu ft, the Electrolux ELFG7626*** is a large clothes dryer for its class, which spans 3.8 to 9.2 cu ft with a median of 7.4 cu ft, among clothes dryer models, bigger capacity is the most common reason a running-cost figure lands on the high side, all else being equal. Beyond size, its CEF of 3.48, below the class median of 3.93, is the class's own efficiency yardstick, combined energy factor, and it is what separates two similarly sized models with different running costs.
- Heat source and Combined Energy Factor (CEF). Heat-pump dryers recycle heat instead of generating it fresh with a resistance coil, and typically use meaningfully less electricity per load than a conventional resistance dryer, at the cost of a longer cycle; CEF is the federal figure that captures this.
- Drum capacity. A larger drum can dry a bigger load per cycle, but it also usually needs more energy per cycle to heat the extra air volume.
Common questions
Is the Electrolux ELFG7626*** cheap to run?
Its $128/yr running cost, rank #524 of 615, is above what most clothes dryer models we track cost to run, so this is not one of the cheaper picks on electricity alone.
How much does the Electrolux ELFG7626*** cost per month?
About $10.63 a month, which is the $128 annual estimate spread across twelve months at the US average rate of $0.1856/kWh. Your own bill scales with your local electricity rate and how heavily you use it.
How is this running-cost figure calculated?
The formula is annual kWh times price per kWh: 687 kWh from ENERGY STAR times the US average of $0.1856/kWh comes to about $128 a year. It covers electricity only, not the purchase price, water, or installation.
How efficient is the Electrolux ELFG7626*** for its size?
31st percentile once size is factored in. That means its size-adjusted efficiency is not the main reason for the running-cost figure above; its capacity plays a large role too.
Cheaper to run in the same class
| Rank | Model | Cost/yr |
|---|---|---|
| 600 | Kenmore 405.9227##8.1 cu ft | $128 |
| 599 | Whirlpool WGD6720R**7.4 cu ft | $128 |
| 598 | Whirlpool WGD5220R**7.4 cu ft | $128 |
| 597 | Whirlpool WGD4720R**7.4 cu ft | $128 |
| 596 | Whirlpool WGD5720R**7.4 cu ft | $128 |
Source
ES_1021080_ELFG7626***_101720241649472_4150131View certified clothes dryer listingsENERGY STAR data as of July 2026Electrolux and ELFG7626*** are used here for identification only and are not endorsements. Figures are computed by WattWise Labs from public ENERGY STAR data, not measured in our own lab.