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Maytag H24vBA51(3B)

534 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 2.76 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.

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

  • MFW7020R**

You are checking the Maytag H24vBA51(3B), a standard-size front-loading washer sold as MFW7020R**. At DOE's test use, this site calculates 534 kWh a year with an electric water heater and electric dryer, and 4,720 gallons of water. 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: 140 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) · 2026-10-25

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What it costs to run where you live

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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
2.76 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

$1,270–$2,277 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 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 · 2026-09-29

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

This site calculated the 534 kWh figure; the registry does not publish it. The calculation uses the model's IMEF of 2.76 and its capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 5, at DOE's yearly test use. Because IMEF counts drying energy, the figure includes an electric dryer's share. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only value of 140 kWh a year for this model. That value covers only the washer and its electrically heated water, with no dryer. Most of the gap between 140 kWh and 534 kWh is therefore the dryer's share. Keep in mind that the two values come from different sources. The registry data came from DOE's CCD on 2026-10-25. The steps are set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.

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This site also calculated the 4,720 gallons a year. It uses the IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. The IWF is 3.2 for this model, applied to the 5 capacity at DOE's yearly test use. So the figure describes the test pattern, not the number of loads in any particular household. A household that runs more or fewer cycles than the test assumes will use a different amount of water. The page gives no water cost for the 4,720 gallons. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost figure would be an estimate. The gallon figure is the verified value, and the reader's local water and sewer rates are not available here.

This model is compared with the 360 models registered as front-loading, standard size. Its IMEF of 2.76 equals the class median of 2.76, and it ranks 101st highest IMEF of 360. The rank and the median fall on the same IMEF, which means other models in the class share this value. The model is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class, and 37 models in the class sit at that minimum. The running cost is not given in this text. It depends on the reader's own electricity tariff, so the page works it out from the reader's ZIP and the 534 kWh figure. The installed-price range appears in its own block with its source and date. Other models are listed on all clothes washer pages.

DOE CCD · 2026-10-25

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