Samsung WF45K62…A
Filed with DOE as WF45K62**A*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
455 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 2.92 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A front-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 4.5 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.
- WF45K62**A*
The SAMSUNG WF45K62**A* uses 455 kWh of electricity a year at DOE's test use, with an electric water heater and an electric dryer. At the same test use it takes 3,850 gallons of water. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.92, above the median of 2.76 for its class.
Energy and water per year
455 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
Not published: The washer's own share, without the dryer
DOE's database files IMEF, which folds the dryer in; only ENERGY STAR splits the machine out, and it lists this model under no matching rating.
The total above, and the IMEF it comes from, stand as filed.
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.
3,850 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
- 2.92 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
- 2.9
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 4.5 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.84
Installed cost and service life
Not published: Installed cost range
NLR REMDB's cost model needs the washer's own yearly energy use, which only ENERGY STAR files — and it lists no matching rating for this model.
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 · 2026-09-29This 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 WD80H53…H 535 kWh a year
- Samsung WD90F53…V 535 kWh a year
- Samsung WF45M55…A 455 kWh a year
- Samsung WF45N63…A 455 kWh a year
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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 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 455 kWh figure is computed by this site, not taken from the registry. It uses the registry's IMEF of 2.92 and a capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 4.5, at DOE's test use. The registry values come from DOE's CCD, retrieved 2026-10-25, and assume an electric water heater and an electric dryer. Because IMEF folds the dryer in, the yearly figure covers drying the load, not only washing it. The machine's own share is not available for this model. Only ENERGY STAR splits the washer out, and it lists the WF45K62**A* under no matching rating. An installed price range is not published either, because the cost database needs that machine-only figure. The steps behind the calculation are set out in the notes on how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.
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The 3,850 gallons figure comes from the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. This model's IWF is 2.9, and this site multiplies it by the 4.5 cubic foot capacity at DOE's test use. The figure applies at that test use only, and the page does not know how many loads the reader runs. The water cost is not stated, because no free national source publishes local water and sewer rates. The running cost of the 455 kWh is also left out of the text. It depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff, so the page computes it from the reader's ZIP.
This washer is compared with the 360 models registered as front-loading, standard size. Its IMEF of 2.92 ranks 33rd highest of the 360 and sits above the class median of 2.76. In that class, 37 models are rated at the federal minimum IMEF, while this model is rated above it. The minimum value itself is not given in this data, so the gap between this model and the floor is not available. The rank compares IMEF alone, so the IWF of 2.9 and the machine's price play no part in it. Other models in the same class can be looked up from the list of all clothes washer pages.