Model
Ge GUD27GE*N***
Rank #535 means 534 of the 615 clothes dryer models we track cost less to run each year; the 2nd efficiency percentile means it uses less energy for its size than 2% of those models.
What does the Ge GUD27GE*N*** cost to run per year?
The Ge GUD27GE*N*** holds rank #535 of 615 on running cost, at about $128 a year, a genuinely pricey result for the class. Its size-adjusted efficiency percentile of 2 means its running cost, whatever it is, owes almost nothing to efficiency and almost everything to capacity. Its CEF of 3.48 reflects combined energy factor, one of the class's core efficiency levers.
Immediately around it on the leaderboard, the Maytag MGD8630H** at $128/yr runs a little cheaper and the Samsung DVG45R63*** 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 Ge GUD27GE*N***'s $128/yr adds up to roughly $1664 in electricity alone, before purchase price or repairs.
By the numbers
The Ge GUD27GE*N*** 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 Ge GUD27GE*N*** adds up to before purchase price, water, or repairs enter the math.
Left running for a decade at today's US average rate, the Ge GUD27GE*N*** 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 Ge GUD27GE*N*** 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 6 cu ft, the Ge GUD27GE*N*** is a small clothes dryer for its class, which spans 3.8 to 9.2 cu ft with a median of 7.4 cu ft, and smaller clothes dryer models generally cost less to run for the same job, all else being equal. The CEF of 3.48 on this model, below the class median of 3.93, measures combined energy factor; it is the number to compare directly against another model's CEF if capacity is similar.
- 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 Ge GUD27GE*N*** cheap to run?
Its $128/yr running cost, rank #535 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 Ge GUD27GE*N*** 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 Ge GUD27GE*N*** for its size?
2nd 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 534 | Maytag MGD8630H**7.3 cu ft | $128 |
| 533 | Maytag MGD6630H**7.3 cu ft | $128 |
| 532 | Maytag MGD5630H**7.3 cu ft | $128 |
| 531 | Whirlpool WGD9620H**7.4 cu ft | $128 |
| 530 | Whirlpool WGD560LH**7.4 cu ft | $128 |
Source
ES_1123206_GUD27GE*N***_12032018143509_7709976View certified clothes dryer listingsENERGY STAR data as of July 2026Ge and GUD27GE*N*** 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.