Maytag H18vBA51(3B)
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 front-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 5 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.
- MHW8630H**
Checking the Maytag H18vBA51(3B) against the registry? It uses 534 kWh of electricity a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer at DOE's test use. Its water use is 4,720 gallons a year on the same basis. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.76, equal to its class median.
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: 159 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 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
- 3.2
- 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
- 1.84
From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-25
- ENERGY STAR
- ENERGY STAR certified.
Installed cost and service life
Not published: Installed cost range
This model's yearly energy use lies outside the range NLR REMDB's cost model was fitted on, and the range is not stretched past it.
Ask retailers or installers for a written quote that names this model number. The yearly energy, water and running cost on this page do not depend on it.
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 · 2026-09-29Safety 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
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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 Maytag 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 figure covers the washer, the heating of its water and the drying of each load in an electric dryer. This site computes it, not the registry. It combines the registry's IMEF of 2.76 with the model's capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, at DOE's yearly test use. For this front-loading washer of standard size, capacity is 5 cubic feet. The source is DOE's Compliance Certification Database, retrieved 2026-10-25. ENERGY STAR files a separate figure of 159 kWh a year. That covers the machine and its electrically heated water alone, with the dryer left out. The gap between 534 kWh and 159 kWh is therefore the dryer's share under these test conditions. The method is set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.
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The water figure of 4,720 gallons a year is also calculated by this site. It applies the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, of 3.2 to the 5 cubic foot drum. The same yearly test use applies. The page states no cost for this water. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost figure here would be an estimate. The electricity cost is not written in the text either. It depends on your own utility tariff, so the page computes it from your ZIP code. Both 534 kWh and 4,720 gallons assume DOE's test use, not your household's own pattern.
This model is compared with the 360 models registered as front-loading washers of standard size. Sold as MHW8630H**, it has an IMEF of 2.76. That equals the class median of 2.76, and it ranks 101st highest by IMEF of the 360. It is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class, where 37 models sit at that minimum. No installed price range is published for this model. Its ratings lie outside the range the cost database's model was fitted on, and the page does not extend that range. Other washer models have their own entries in the full list of clothes washer pages.