LG WT7300C
Filed with DOE as WT7300C*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
534 kWh a year DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) (the U.S. Department of Energy’s Compliance Certification Database) · 2026-10-25with an electric water heater and an electric dryer
IMEF 2.76 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A top-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 5 cubic feet.
Label numbers this filing covers (2)
The model number on your rating plate may be any of these; each is filed under this one listing.
- WT7250C*
- WT7300C*
Checking the LG WT7300C* against its label? Here are its registry-based figures. With an electric water heater and an electric dryer, it uses 534 kWh of electricity a year at DOE's test use, plus 4,720 gallons of water. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.76, above its class median of 1.57.
Energy and water per year
534 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: 110 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.
4,720 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) · 2026-10-25What 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 · 2026-10-25
- 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
- 2.76 Compared only with other top-loading, standard size washers.
- IWF (Integrated Water Factor) how many gallons of water a washer uses per cycle for each cubic foot of drum
- 3.2
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 5 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.57
From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-25
- ENERGY STAR
- ENERGY STAR certified.
Installed cost and service life
$1,131–$1,599 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 top-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.
Closest in its class
- LG WT5270C 524 kWh a year
- LG WT5480C…+ 534 kWh a year
- LG WT7400C 588 kWh a year
- LG WT7700H…A 609 kWh a year
Keep going
How every figure on this page is calculated
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Top-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 LG washer on file
What the brand files, by product class.
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Every clothes washer on file
All four product classes, from the DOE registry.
The 534 kWh total is this site's calculation, not a value the registry publishes. It uses the registry's IMEF of 2.76 and a capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 5, at DOE's test use. Because IMEF counts the dryer, this total includes the electricity the dryer needs to remove the moisture the washer leaves. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure of 110 kWh a year for this model. That figure covers the machine and its electrically heated water alone, with the dryer left out. So 110 kWh and 534 kWh measure different things, and the dryer is the difference in scope. The registry data come from the DOE CCD, retrieved 2026-10-25.
Read the rest
The 4,720 gallons a year comes from the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. For this model the IWF is 3.2. This site multiplies it by the 5 cubic-foot capacity at DOE's test use, as described in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated. The page does not state a water cost for 4,720 gallons. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any charge would be an estimate, and this page does not make one. Anyone checking a water bill can apply the local water and sewer rate to that volume.
This model is compared with the 870 models registered as top-loading, standard size. Its IMEF of 2.76 is above the federal minimum for its class and above the class median. In the same class, 652 models sit at the federal minimum. Ranked by IMEF, this model is 1st of 870. The registry record also lists it as sold as WT7250C*. This text gives no running cost, because the cost depends on the reader's own electricity tariff. Instead, the page applies the rate for the reader's ZIP to 534 kWh. Other models are listed on the clothes washer model pages.