Samsung WF45M51…A
Filed with DOE as WF45M51**A*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
443 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 3.00 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.
- WF45M51**A*
Checking the SAMSUNG WF45M51**A* figures? At DOE's test use, with an electric water heater and an electric dryer, this washer comes to 442 kWh a year. It uses 3,850 gallons of water a year. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 3, above its class median of 2.76.
Energy and water per year
443 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
- 3.00 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 WH53DBH7…E 504 kWh a year
- Samsung WH53DBH7…G 504 kWh a year
- Samsung WF45N53…A 443 kWh a year
- Samsung WF45T60…A 450 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 442 kWh figure is calculated by this site; the registry does not file it. It combines the DOE registry's IMEF of 3 with this model's capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 4.5, at DOE's test use. IMEF includes the dryer, so the yearly figure covers the washer, an electric water heater and an electric dryer together. A machine-only figure is not available for the WF45M51**A*. Only ENERGY STAR reports the machine's own share separately, and it lists no matching rating for this model. For the same reason, no installed price range is shown. The inputs and steps are set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated. The registry data was retrieved on 2026-10-25.
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The 3,850 gallons yearly water figure also comes from this site's calculation, not from the registry. It uses this model's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, which is 2.9. That value is multiplied by the 4.5 cubic-foot capacity at DOE's test use. The result assumes the test's number of cycles, not a household's own load count. The page does not state what this water costs. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates. Without those rates, any cost for the 3,850 gallons would be an estimate, so none is given. A reader who knows their local water and sewer rate can apply it to the gallon figure.
The SAMSUNG WF45M51**A* is compared with the 360 models registered as front-loading, standard-size washers. Its IMEF of 3 ranks 30th highest among them, above the class median of 2.76. A higher IMEF means more laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included. This model is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class. In the same class, 37 models are rated at that minimum. The running cost is not given in this text. It depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff, so the page calculates it from the reader's ZIP code. Other models in this and other classes are listed on the clothes washer pages.