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Samsung WW25FG6B

Filed with DOE as WW25FG6B****. 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) · 2026-10-25

with 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.

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

  • WW25FG6B****

If you are verifying this Samsung WW25FG6B****: registry data gives 328 kWh a year with an electric water heater and electric dryer, and 2,729 gallons of water at DOE's test use. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.25, below the class median of 2.76.


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) · 2026-10-25

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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
2.25 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) · 2026-04-01

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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

This model's EnergyGuide label (the manufacturer's PDF) (opens in a new tab)


What these figures mean

The yearly figure of 328 kWh covers the washer, an electric water heater and an electric dryer. This site computed it, not the registry, from the registry's IMEF and capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, at DOE's test use. This model's capacity is 2.5 cubic feet. The source is DOE CCD, retrieved 2026-10-25. ENERGY STAR files a separate machine-only figure of 90 kWh, which covers the machine and its electrically heated water but not the dryer. The difference between the two figures is mainly the dryer's share, although they come from different sources. The steps are set out on the methodology for yearly washer energy and water.

Water use is 2,729 gallons a year at DOE's test use. This site computed it, not the registry. It starts from IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, which is 3.7 for this model. The yearly total follows from that IWF, the capacity of 2.5 cubic feet and the number of cycles in DOE's test use. No water cost is given, because no free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, and this page does not estimate one. A modeled installed-cost range, which is not a quote, appears in its own block with its source and date. It is not repeated in this text.

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This model's IMEF of 2.25 is below the class median of 2.76. The class is the 360 models registered as front-loading, standard size. Because IMEF is laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, a lower value means less laundry washed for each kilowatt-hour, dryer included. The registry data does not show how that difference changes any one household's use. Running cost is not stated here, because it depends on your own utility electricity tariff. The page computes it from the ZIP you enter. To check another model against this one, see the list of all clothes washer pages.

DOE CCD · 2026-10-25

Where the hot water in this figure comes from


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