Samsung WW25B68…A
Filed with DOE as WW25B68**A*. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
328 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 2.25 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A front-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 2.5 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.
- WW25B68**A*
If you are checking the Samsung WW25B68**A*, it uses 328 kWh a year at DOE's test use with an electric water heater and electric dryer. Its water use at the same test is 2,729 gallons a year. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.25, below its class median.
Energy and water per year
328 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: 90 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.
2,729 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
- 2.25 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
- 3.7
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 2.5 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.84
From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-25
- ENERGY STAR
- ENERGY STAR certified, and listed as Most Efficient.
Installed cost and service life
$1,193–$1,862 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 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 WW22K680…A 288 kWh a year
- Samsung WW22N685…Q 288 kWh a year
- Samsung WW25B69…A 328 kWh a year
- Samsung WW25FG5B 328 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.
This site, not the registry, computed the 328 kWh yearly figure from the registry's IMEF and the model's capacity at DOE's test use. Here capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, is 2.5 for this model. Because IMEF counts the dryer, the 328 kWh total covers the electric dryer as well as the washer and its heated water. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure of 90 kWh a year for this model. That figure counts the machine and its electrically heated water alone, with the dryer left out of the total. The gap between 328 kWh and 90 kWh reflects the dryer, which only the larger figure includes. The steps are set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated, using registry data retrieved on 2026-10-25.
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The 2,729 gallons yearly figure is also this site's calculation, not a value the registry publishes. It uses the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, which is 3.7 here. That factor is applied to the 2.5 cubic-foot drum at the same DOE test use as the energy figure. No cost is stated for this water, because no free national source publishes local water and sewer rates. Any cost figure would therefore be an estimate, and this page gives none for 2,729 gallons a year. A reader who knows the local water and sewer rate can apply it to that yearly volume. A comparison of water use across the class is not available in this page's data.
The class used here is the 360 models registered as front-loading washers of standard size. Within that class, this model's IMEF of 2.25 ranks 282nd highest of 360, below the class median IMEF of 2.76. It is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class. In the class, 37 models are rated at that federal minimum. The value of that federal minimum is not available in this page's data. Running cost is not stated in the text, because it depends on your own utility electricity tariff. The page computes that cost from your ZIP rather than giving one figure for every reader. The installed price range appears in its own block with its source and date, as a modeled range rather than a quote. Other front-loading models can be checked through all clothes washer pages.