Lab refrigerators and freezersENERGY STAR certified
Thermo Scientific FBG-5030FA
44.5 cu ft high performance freezer lab refrigerator.
Total volume
44.5 cu ft
Daily energy use
6.59 kWh/day
Form factor
Upright
NSF/ANSI 456 certified
No
Of 114 certified high performance freezer lab refrigerators and freezers, 104 have a lower daily energy use than the FBG-5030FA (6.59 kWh/day).
At 6.59 kWh/day it uses about 2,405 kWh a year, roughly $313 at 13¢/kWh.
- Maker
- Thermo Scientific
- Model
- FBG-5030FA
- Type
- High Performance Freezer
- Form factor
- Upright
- Total volume
- 44.5 cu ft
- Doors
- 2
- Glass doors
- 0
- Defrost
- Automatic
- Daily energy use
- 6.59 kWh/day
- NSF/ANSI 456 certified
- No
- Refrigerant
- R-290
- On the market since
- Aug 2026
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 24 Aug 2026
Source: ENERGY STAR certified lab refrigerators and freezers dataset, US EPA, record 4692254, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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