Maytag H18vBA55(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**
You are checking the Maytag H18vBA55(3B), sold as MHW8630H**. At DOE's test use it needs 534 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer, plus 4,720 gallons of water. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.76, equal to the median for standard-size front-loaders.
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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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 three parts: the washer itself, the electricity that heats its water, and an electric dryer. This site calculated it; the registry does not publish it. The inputs are the model's IMEF and its capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, which is 5 for this washer. Both come from the DOE Compliance Certification Database, retrieved 2026-10-25. ENERGY STAR also files a machine-only figure of 159 kWh a year for this model. That figure counts the machine and its electrically heated water alone. The dryer is the part it leaves out. This page has no figure for a home with a gas water heater or a gas dryer. The steps are set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.
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The 4,720 gallons a year is also this site's calculation, not a registry value. It uses the model's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. For this washer the IWF is 3.2, applied to its 5 cubic feet at DOE's test use. The result describes water use under that test, not a reading from a household meter. The cost of that water is not shown here. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost would be an estimate. A reader who knows the local rate can apply it to the 4,720 gallons figure. The installed price range for this model is not published either. Its ratings lie outside the range the cost database's model was fitted on.
The class for this comparison is the 360 models registered as front-loading washers of standard size. This model's IMEF of 2.76 equals the class median of 2.76. It holds the 101st highest IMEF of those 360 models. It is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class, where 37 models in the class sit. The yearly running cost is not written in this text. It depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff, so the page computes it from the reader's ZIP code. Other models in the same class can be looked up on all clothes washer pages.