Blomberg WM72200W
271 kWh a year DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) (the U.S. Department of Energy’s Compliance Certification Database) · 2026-10-09with an electric water heater and an electric dryer
IMEF 2.07 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A front-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 1.9 cubic feet.
Not published: A current DOE listing
DOE's Compliance Certification Database no longer lists this basic model: it was missing from the registry on Oct 11, 2026. DOE does not publish why a listing ends.
What stays: the figures it filed up to , and its rank in its class as of that date. It no longer counts in class ranks, comparisons or the selector. See what replaces it today.
To verify the Blomberg WM72200W: it uses 271 kWh of electricity a year at DOE's test use. That figure assumes an electric water heater and an electric dryer, and the washer uses 2,018 gallons of water a year. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.07, below its class median of 2.76.
Energy and water per year
271 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer
Computed by this site from the registry's IMEF and drum capacity at DOE's test use of 295 cycles a year. IMEF counts the washer, heating its water electrically, and the electric dryer's work on what the spin leaves wet — so this is the total for that kind of home. How it is calculated
The machine and its hot water alone, dryer not included: 84 kWh a year, as ENERGY STAR files it.
Not published: A home with a gas water heater, a gas dryer or line drying
DOE's rating assumes electric water heating and an electric dryer and files no split between the machine, the water heating and the drying.
Such a home uses less electricity than the total above; how much less, no registry says for this model.
2,018 gallons of water a year
Computed from the registry's IWF and drum capacity at the same 295 cycles a year.
Not published: What the water costs
water and sewer rates are set by thousands of local utilities and no free national source publishes them.
The gallons above are the figure to multiply by your own water and sewer rate.
Its IMEF, 2.07, is below the class median of 2.76 and ranks 295th of the 351 front-loading, standard size washers on file, highest first.
DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) · 2026-10-09What it costs to run where you live
See what the middle washer of each product class costs to run on your rate.
What the registry files
From DOE CCD · 2026-10-09
- IMEF (Integrated Modified Energy Factor) how many cubic feet of drum a washer cleans for each kilowatt-hour, counting the machine, heating the water and drying what the spin leaves wet
- 2.07 Compared only with other front-loading, standard size washers.
- IWF (Integrated Water Factor) how many gallons of water a washer uses per cycle for each cubic foot of drum
- 3.6
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 1.9 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.84
From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-09
- ENERGY STAR
- ENERGY STAR certified.
Installed cost and service life
$1,185–$1,829 installed
Not a quote — a modeled range of what installers have charged for this class of unit; your price will vary with labor rates, access, and local code requirements.
Brought to current prices with Bureau of Labor Statistics indexes: equipment to August 2026, installation labor to April 2026–June 2026.
NLR REMDB (BLS PPI/ECI escalated) · 2026-04-01Service life: DOE’s cost database assumes 11 years for front-loading washers. That is a class assumption, not this model’s rating or a warranty — no registry publishes either.
NLR REMDB v4.0.0 · 2026-09-29Safety record
No CPSC recall names this model.
Checked against the CPSC recall database. CPSC does not publish a model-level match for this product category, so this list is curated by hand from the manufacturer's recall filings.
CPSC · 2026-09-29What these figures mean
Where the hot water in this figure comes from
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Water heaters
The other big user of hot water in a home, with every model on file.
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What a water heater costs to run
Prices a water heater’s efficiency against your own utility’s tariff.
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How every figure on this page is calculated
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Front-load washers ranked by filed efficiency (IMEF)
Ranked by filed IMEF inside each class, recalled models left out.
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Most energy-efficient clothes washers
Ranked by filed IMEF inside each class, recalled models left out.
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Top load vs front load washing machine
The filed IMEF, yearly energy, water, drum size and installed-cost range of every standard-size top-loading and front-loading washer, side by side from the DOE registry.
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How much water and electricity does a washing machine use?
The yearly gallons and kWh of every residential washer on file, by product class with the full spread, plus the exact per-cycle figures, and the watts no registry files declared as a gap.
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Every clothes washer on file
All four product classes, from the DOE registry.
The 271 kWh figure covers the washer, the electric water heater and the electric dryer together. This site computed it, not the registry, from the model's IMEF and its capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 1.9. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure of 84 kWh a year for this model. That value counts the machine and its electrically heated water alone, with the dryer left out. Only the combined figure includes the dryer. The combined figure assumes DOE's yearly test use, not how often a particular household runs the machine. The DOE CCD data behind the combined figure was retrieved on 2026-10-09. The steps are set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.
Read the rest
The 2,018 gallons yearly water figure is also this site's calculation. It uses the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, which is 3.6 for this model. The site multiplies that factor by the capacity and by DOE's yearly test use. A household that runs fewer or more loads than the test assumes will use a different amount. A lower IWF means less water per cubic foot of drum in each cycle. The page does not state a cost for this water. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost would be an estimate. A plumber or homeowner can apply the local utility's water and sewer rate to the 2,018 gallons figure.
This model is compared with the 351 models registered as front-loading, standard size. Its IMEF of 2.07 ranks 295th highest of 351, below the class median of 2.76. It is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class, where 37 models sit at that minimum. Because its IMEF is below the median, it washes fewer cubic feet per kilowatt-hour than a median model in the class. The text gives no running cost for the 271 kWh figure. That cost depends on the reader's own electricity tariff, so the page computes it from the reader's ZIP code. Other models can be checked on the list of all clothes washer pages.