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LG WT7500C

Filed with DOE as WT7500C*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.

645 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 2.38 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it

A top-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 5.2 cubic feet.

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

  • WT7500C*

Checking the LG WT7500C*? At DOE's test use, this top-loading standard-size washer uses 645 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer, and 5,676 gallons of water. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.38, against a class median of 1.57.


Energy and water per year

645 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: 130 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.

5,676 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
2.38 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
3.7
Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
5.2 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

$1,149–$1,645 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 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 · 2026-09-29

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

The 645 kWh figure covers three parts: the washer, the electricity that heats its water, and the electric dryer. This site calculated it, not the registry. The inputs are the registry's IMEF and capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, here 5.2, at DOE's yearly test cycle count. The DOE CCD record was retrieved 2026-10-25. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure of 130 kWh a year. That figure covers the machine and its electrically heated water alone, without the dryer. The two figures come from different filers, so their difference is not a published dryer value. Figures for a gas water heater or a gas dryer are not available on this page. The method behind the yearly energy and water figures lists each step.

Read the rest

The 5,676 gallons a year comes from IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. For this model the IWF is 3.7. This site multiplied it by the 5.2 capacity at the same yearly cycle count DOE uses. The result is a test-use figure, so a household running more or fewer loads will use a different amount. The cost of that water is not shown. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so this page does not estimate one. The electricity running cost is not written here either. It depends on the reader's own utility tariff, and the page computes it from the reader's ZIP in a separate block.

This model is compared with the 870 models registered as top-loading, standard size. Its IMEF of 2.38 ranks 10th of 870 in that class. That places it above the class median of 1.57 and above the federal minimum IMEF for its class. In the same class, 652 models are rated at that federal minimum. The value of the minimum itself is not available in this page's data. A modeled installed-cost range appears in its own block, with its source and date; it is not a quote. Other models in this class have their own entries among all clothes washer pages.

DOE CCD · 2026-10-25

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