Samsung WA54R72…A
Filed with DOE as WA54R72**A*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
773 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: 5.4 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.
- WA54R72**A*
If you are verifying the SAMSUNG WA54R72**A*, it uses 773 kWh a year with an electric water heater and electric dryer. At DOE's test use, it also uses 6,850 gallons of water a year. 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
773 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.
6,850 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
- 5.4 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
$1,174–$1,668 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 · 2026-09-29This model's EnergyGuide label (the manufacturer's PDF) (opens in a new tab)
What 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
- Samsung WA54A7305A 773 kWh a year
- Samsung WA54M87…A 773 kWh a year
- Samsung WA54R76…A 773 kWh a year
- Samsung WA55A73…A 788 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 Samsung 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 773 kWh figure is computed by this site from registry data, not published by the registry itself. It combines the registry's IMEF with this model's capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, which is 5.4. The total assumes DOE's test use of the machine, an electric water heater and an electric dryer. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure for this model of 120 kWh a year. That figure counts the washer and its electrically heated water alone, with the dryer left out. The gap between the two yearly numbers is the share attributed to drying under the same test use. The steps behind both totals are set out under how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.
Read the rest
At DOE's test use, this washer draws 6,850 gallons of water a year, a figure computed by this site. The registry lists an IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, of 4.3. This site multiplied that IWF by the 5.4 cubic foot drum and by DOE's yearly count of test cycles. The page states no cost for this water, and none is estimated here. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost figure would be a guess. Readers who need a cost can apply their own local water and sewer rate to the yearly gallons.
The registry lists 870 models as top-loading washers of standard size, and their median IMEF is 1.57. This model's IMEF of 2.06 ranks 37th highest of the 870, which places it above the class median. Of those models, 652 sit at the federal minimum IMEF for the class, while this model is rated above it. The running cost is not stated in this text, because it depends on the reader's own electricity tariff. For that reason, the page computes it from the reader's ZIP rather than giving a single figure. The modeled installed price range sits in its own block on this page, with its source and date. Pages for other washers are listed in the index of all clothes washer pages.