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Clothes washers — United States

Every residential clothes washer manufacturers have on file with the DOE CCD — 1,279 models, not a shortlist — has its own page here: the energy and water it uses in a year at DOE's test use, and where its efficiency sits in its class. Search for yours or open its class below.


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Ranked list and guide


Running cost and collections


What every figure here counts

DOE rates a washer by its IMEF — the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour — and that rating counts three things: the machine, heating its water electrically, and an electric dryer's work on what the spin leaves wet. So the yearly kWh on these pages is the total for a home with an electric water heater and an electric dryer, at DOE's test use of 295 cycles a year. ENERGY STAR files the machine's own share for 365 of these models; where it does, the model page shows it too.

Water is in gallons, not dollars: no free national source publishes local water and sewer rates. The methodology page gives every formula and source.


What is in scope

Every residential clothes washer a manufacturer has on file with the DOE Compliance Certification Database is in scope; commercial washers are a separate filing and are not. A row in that registry is a (basic model × individual model) pair; resolved to basic models, the last pull found 1,279. Models are compared only inside DOE's own product class — top or front loading, standard or compact — never across them.


Every model on file

Grouped by DOE product class, highest IMEF first within each. Yearly energy is the total with an electric water heater and an electric dryer. Open a group to see its models.

Front-loading, standard size 360 models
Show the other 350 models
Top-loading, standard size 870 models
Show the other 860 models
Front-loading, compact 1 model
Top-loading, compact 48 models
Show the other 38 models

No longer listed by DOE

Models the registry stopped filing. Each page keeps the figures it filed, dated.