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Wine or drinks cabinet (cooled appliance) · 1 door
Sub-Zero ICBCL3650F Series Fridge
Sub-Zero ICBCL3650F Series is a 582 L wine or drinks cabinet (cooled appliance) registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ARF3012).
- Total capacity
- 582 L
- 582 L freezer
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Star rating index 4.53
- Annual electricity use
- 297 kWh
- Label figure (comparative energy consumption)
- Estimated running cost
- $98 / year
- $8.17 / month · $980 over 10 years
21% less electricity than the median of 6 comparable 500–599 L wine or drinks cabinet (cooled appliance) registrations (377 kWh a year). It uses less than 83% of them. At 33c/kWh that is about $26 a year less than the median, $264 over 10 years.
Uses 57% less than the maximum allowed for its size and type under the minimum energy performance standard (699 kWh a year MEPS level).
Cost = label kWh × 33c/kWh in NZD; change the price above to your tariff.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 500–599 L wine or drinks cabinet (cooled appliance) sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration. Star ratings already account for size through the GEMS adjusted-volume formula; this comparison is in raw kWh against models a buyer would actually consider instead.
Sub-Zero ICBCL3650F Series running cost
- Per month
- $8.17
- Per year
- $98
- 5 years
- $490
- 10 years
- $980
297 kWh × 33c/kWh. No inflation or tariff change assumed. Fridges run continuously, so the label figure is a whole-year estimate under standard test conditions.
Capacity and compartments
- Total gross volume
- 582 L
- Fresh food (fridge) volume
- –
- Frozen storage volume
- 582 L
- GEMS adjusted volume
- 915 L
- two-star compartment
- 582 L gross
Gross volumes exclude shelving. Fresh food = fresh food, chill and cellar compartments; frozen = freezer, two-star and ice-making (zero-star) compartments. Adjusted volume weights frozen space more heavily and is what the government uses to set the star rating for the size.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Same consumer type, total capacity within 12% of 582 L; ordered by closeness of capacity, then lowest annual kWh.
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Sub-Zero ICBCL3650F Series specifications
- Type
- Wine or drinks cabinet (cooled appliance)
- Configuration
- Upright
- Doors
- 1
- Defrost
- Variable defrost controller
- Ice maker
- No
- Width
- 914 mm
- Height
- 2,134 mm
- Depth
- 610 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 297 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.535
- MEPS level (maximum allowed)
- 699 kWh
- kWh per adjusted litre
- 0.325
- Country of manufacture
- United States of America
Other model numbers on registration ARF3012
Registered together with the same test results, usually colour or finish variants.
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ARF3012
- GEMS registration id
- 152038
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 16 January 2028
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- ICBCL3650F Series
- Designation
- Cooled appliance
- Product class
- Class 10
- GEMS group
- Group 7: vertical freezer, automatic defrost
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Household Refrigerating Appliances) Determination 2019
- Test standard
- IEC 62552-3:2015
- Consumer type rule
- Designated a cooled appliance by the registrant
Source: E3 programme registration data (EECA, New Zealand) (trans-Tasman E3 registration data published by DCCEEW on data.gov.au, CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 25 September 2026; last checked 26 September 2026. Manufacturer: subzero.com. How the derived figures are calculated.