Whirlpool H22gAA54(3B)
534 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 2.76 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A front-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 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.
- WFW6605M**
If you are checking the Whirlpool H22gAA54(3B), it uses 534 kWh of electricity a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer, at DOE's test use. It uses 4,720 gallons of water a year at that test use. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.76, equal to its class median.
Energy and water per year
534 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: 150 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.
4,720 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
- 2.76 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
- 3.2
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 5 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.84
From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-25
- ENERGY STAR
- ENERGY STAR certified.
Installed cost and service life
$1,288–$2,388 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 · 2026-09-29What 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
- Whirlpool H22gAA52(3B) 534 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 Whirlpool 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 534 kWh figure assumes that both the water heater and the dryer run on electricity. This site computed it, not the registry, from the IMEF and the capacity. Capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, is 5 for this model. The method is set out on the page about how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated. The underlying ratings come from the DOE Compliance Certification Database, retrieved on 2026-10-25. ENERGY STAR files a separate figure of 150 kWh a year, covering the machine and its electrically heated water alone, without the dryer. The gap between the two figures is the dryer's share at DOE's test use. A home with a gas water heater or a gas dryer falls outside the scope of both figures.
Read the rest
The 4,720 gallons figure starts from the model's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. For this model the IWF is 3.2, as filed in the DOE registry. This site multiplied that factor by the capacity of 5 cubic feet and by DOE's yearly count of test cycles. The registry itself publishes the IWF, not a yearly gallon total. A household that runs more or fewer loads than DOE's test use will see a different yearly total. The page shows no water cost for these 4,720 gallons. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so a cost figure is not available here. A reader who knows the local combined water and sewer rate can apply it to the yearly gallons directly.
This model is compared with the 360 models registered as front-loading washers of standard size. Its IMEF of 2.76 equals the class median of 2.76, and among those 360 models it holds the 101st highest IMEF. It is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class, where 37 of the 360 models sit. The registry lists this model as sold under the name WFW6605M**. The yearly running cost is not written in this text, because it depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff. The page instead computes it from the reader's ZIP code. Other models appear through the index of all clothes washer pages.