kWh per year (fridges and freezers)
Electricity the appliance is expected to use in a year, in kilowatt-hours: the average daily consumption from the test, multiplied by 365.
- What it looks like on the label
- A number followed by ‘kWh/annum’ in the middle of a fridge, freezer or wine-cooler label.
- Printed on
- Fridge or freezer
- Unit
- kWh per year, whole number
- Regulation
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2016, Annex III
Where the regulations differ
It is the only label here that prints a yearly figure; laundry and dish appliances print kWh per 100 cycles and TVs and lamps kWh per 1000 hours.
What the regulation says
On a fridge or freezer label
- What the number measures
- AE: average daily energy consumption × 365.
- Unit
- kWh per year, whole number
- Test condition
- energy tests at room temperatures of 16 °C and 32 °C (Annex IV); the regulation’s model corrects the figure to a 24 °C room.
Regulation (EU) 2019/2016, Annex III, point 1.2 (VI) and point 2.2 (VI); definition in Annex I: annual energy consumption ( AE ), expressed in kWh per year and rounded to the nearest integer;
Checked 2026-09-25.
Other icons on the fridge or freezer label
QR code (top left of the label)On 8 product labelsEnergy efficiency class arrow (A to G)On 7 product labelsNoise in dB(A) with class A–D (appliances)On 4 product labelsFrozen compartment volume (snowflake, litres)Fridge or freezerUnfrozen and chill compartment volume (litres)Fridge or freezerWine bottles (wine storage appliances)Fridge or freezer
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2016 — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2016 of 11 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 with regard to energy labelling of refrigerating appliances. Label content: Annex III. Article 11: “It shall apply from 1 March 2021.” Amended by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/340 (label sizes, test notes and verification tolerances); the label points quoted here are unchanged by it. Checked 2026-09-25.
Read in the Official Journal text on the date shown. Our drawing is not the official pictogram; the regulation’s own label figure is the authority.