LG WT8200C
Filed with DOE as WT8200C*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
716 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 2.06 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.
- WT8200C*
- WT8300C*
The LG WT8200C* uses 716 kWh a year at DOE's test use with an electric water heater and electric dryer. Its water use is 6,342 gallons a year, both figures computed from registry inputs you can verify below. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.06, above its class median of 1.57.
Energy and water per year
716 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.
6,343 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
- 2.06 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
- 4.3
- 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
$1,129–$1,606 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 WT7305C 687 kWh a year
- LG WT7405C 759 kWh a year
- LG WT8205C 687 kWh a year
- LG WT8405C 759 kWh a year
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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 716 kWh yearly figure is computed by this site, not by the registry, from the registry's own IMEF and capacity values. Capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, is 5 for this model, and the calculation assumes DOE's test use. Because IMEF counts drying, that total includes the energy of an electric dryer as well as an electric water heater. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure of 120 kWh a year for this model, which leaves the dryer out. That figure covers only the washer and its electrically heated water, so the dryer's share appears only in the 716 kWh total. The registry values come from the DOE Compliance Certification Database, retrieved 2026-10-25, as the source line shows. Each step of the arithmetic is set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.
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The water figure of 6,342 gallons a year is also computed by this site rather than taken directly from the registry. It starts from IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, which is 4.3 here. That factor is multiplied by the 5 cubic feet of capacity and by the number of cycles in DOE's test use. The page shows no cost for this water, because no free national source publishes local water and sewer rates. Anyone who knows their own utility's water and sewer rate can apply it to the 6,342 gallons total directly. The total holds only at DOE's test use; a home that runs a different number of loads will see a different amount.
Among the 870 models registered as top-loading, standard size, this model has the 37th highest IMEF. Its IMEF of 2.06 is above the class median of 1.57, meaning more laundry washed per kilowatt-hour under the test. Of the 870 models in the class, 652 are rated at the federal minimum IMEF, while this one is rated above it. The running cost is not stated in this text, because it depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff. The page computes that cost from the reader's ZIP instead, and the installed price range sits in its own block with source and date. Other models in this class can be checked through all clothes washer pages.