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LG WM1455H…A

Filed with DOE as WM1455H*A. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.

342 kWh a year DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) (the U.S. Department of Energy’s Compliance Certification Database) · 2026-10-25

with 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: 2.4 cubic feet.

Label numbers this filing covers (1)

The model number on your rating plate may be any of these; each is filed under this one listing.

  • WM1455H*A

Checking the LG WM1455H*A? At DOE's test use, it uses 342 kWh of electricity a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer. It also uses 2,974 gallons of water a year. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.07. That ranks 306th highest of 360 front-loading, standard-size models.


Energy and water per year

342 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: 120 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.

2,974 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.

This model is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class.

DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) · 2026-10-25

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What the registry files

From DOE CCD · 2026-10-25

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
4.2
Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
2.4 ft³
Federal minimum IMEF for this class
1.84

From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-25

ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR certified.

Installed cost and service life

$1,247–$2,200 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) · 2026-04-01

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Service 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 · 2026-09-29

Safety 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 · 2026-09-29

What these figures mean

This site calculates the 342 kWh figure; the registry does not publish it. The calculation combines the registry's IMEF of 2.07 with the model's capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 2.4, at DOE's test use. IMEF counts the dryer, so the figure assumes an electric water heater and an electric dryer. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure of 120 kWh a year for this model. That figure covers the washer and its electrically heated water alone, with the dryer left out. Only the first figure counts the dryer. The registry values come from DOE's Compliance Certification Database, retrieved 2026-10-25. Our method for the yearly energy and water figures sets out each step of the calculation.

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The 2,974 gallons a year is also this site's calculation, not a registry value. It starts from the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. For this model the IWF is 4.2. The site multiplies that factor by the 2.4 cubic-foot capacity and by DOE's yearly test use. The page does not state what this water costs. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so no cost estimate is given. The electricity running cost is not written here either. It depends on the reader's own utility tariff, so the page computes it from the reader's ZIP code. The installed-cost range sits in its own block, with its source and date, as a modeled range rather than a quote.

The 306th rank above compares this model with the 360 models registered as front-loading, standard size. The class median IMEF is 2.76, and this model's IMEF of 2.07 sits below that median. A higher IMEF means more laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included. The model is still rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class. In the same class, 37 models are rated at that federal minimum. The rank compares registry ratings only and does not describe use in a particular home. Other models in this class, and in other washer classes, are listed on the clothes washer model pages.

DOE CCD · 2026-10-25

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