GE Profile Opal 2.0 (XPIO13SCSS)

What GE publishes

The number nobody else publishes

GE is the only manufacturer in this category that prints a per-hour rate. The Opal 2.0 manual gives 38 lbs per day / 1.6 lb per hour.

That is more useful than the daily figure. A tall glass of ice is roughly half a pound, so 1.6 lbs an hour is about three glasses an hour, or a glass every twenty minutes, from a machine that is already up to temperature. Every other manufacturer publishes a daily rate only, which tells you nothing about the wait.

GE attaches its own caveat to the whole table: "Technical data and performance information provided for reference only." That is the manufacturer telling you these are ideal-conditions numbers, and it is worth taking seriously — production rates in this category assume cold inlet water and a cool room.

GE contradicts itself, and we can show where

The same mix-up drives the wattage argument you will see everywhere. 2.5 A at 120 V is 300 VA; 3.0 A at 120 V is 360 VA. The "300 W" and "360 W" camps are each describing a different Opal, and neither figure is a consumption measurement.

What it costs to run

There is no published wattage, so the cost figure has to come from the nameplate. 3.0 A at 120 V is 360 VA. At four running hours a day that is 43.2 kWh a month, and at the EIA's June 2026 US residential average of 18.34 cents per kWh — we round to 18 cents — that is $7.78 a month.

That is a ceiling, and it is worth being precise about why. A nameplate is what the appliance may draw at maximum, used for sizing circuits. A compressor appliance draws less than that while running, and nothing while the bin is full and it is idle. The real figure is lower. We publish the ceiling because it is the only number GE gives us, and we call it a ceiling rather than dressing it up. Full working: the running-cost method.

Who should buy this

• Buy it if you want the machine with the best documentation, the widest availability of filters and cleaning kits, and the largest body of troubleshooting information written about it. Three years in, that ecosystem is worth more than a spec advantage.
• Buy it if knowing when ice will arrive matters, because it is the only machine with a published hourly rate.
• Skip it if the electricity bill is the deciding factor. The Frigidaire Gallery EFIC255 publishes 185 W and works out at less than $4 a month on the same assumptions.
• Skip it if counter space is tight. At 16.5 inches tall plus 3 inches of clearance, it needs an open counter.

What GE does not publish

No decibel rating. No warranty term in the specification table. No wattage. And notably, the GE product page for the XPIO13SCSS carries dimensions and nothing else — no electrical spec, no production rate, no bin capacity, no weight. Everything useful is in the manual, which almost nobody reads before buying.