Whirlpool V14CAM516(3B)
687 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 2.06 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A top-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 4.8 cubic feet.
Label numbers this filing covers (3)
The model number on your rating plate may be any of these; each is filed under this one listing.
- WTW7000D*+
- WTW7040D*+
- WTW7300D*+
For anyone verifying the Whirlpool V14CAM516(3B): it uses 687 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer. It uses 6,089 gallons of water a year at DOE's test use. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 2.06, ranking 37th highest of 870 in its class.
Energy and water per year
687 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.
6,089 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
- 2.06 Compared only with other top-loading, standard size washers.
- IWF (Integrated Water Factor) how many gallons of water a washer uses per cycle for each cubic foot of drum
- 4.3
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 4.8 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.57
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 top-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 V14CAM513(3B) 687 kWh a year
- Whirlpool V14CAM514(3B) 687 kWh a year
- Whirlpool V15UAK50(3B) 759 kWh a year
- Whirlpool V17tAM51(3B) 687 kWh a year
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How every figure on this page is calculated
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Top-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 687 kWh figure is computed by this site, not the registry, from the registry's IMEF and capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet. It applies DOE's yearly test use to this model's capacity of 4.8 cubic feet. Because IMEF folds the dryer in, the yearly figure covers the washer, the electric water heater and the electric dryer together. DOE's database files no machine-only figure; only ENERGY STAR splits the washer's own share out, and it lists this model under no matching rating. So the washer's own yearly share of the 687 kWh is not available on this page. The source is DOE's certification database (CCD), retrieved 2026-10-25, and the method behind the yearly energy and water figures sets out each step.
Read the rest
The 6,089 gallons total comes from IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. This model's IWF of 4.3 is multiplied by its 4.8 cubic feet and by DOE's yearly test use. The total applies only at that test use; a household that runs a different number of cycles will see a different total. No cost is stated for the 6,089 gallons, because no free national source publishes local water and sewer rates. Your own water and sewer bill carries the rate needed to price that volume.
Among the 870 models registered as top-loading, standard size, the median IMEF is 1.57. This model's IMEF of 2.06 sits above that median and above the federal minimum for the class. Of the 870, 652 models are rated at the federal minimum, so most of the class is rated at the level this model exceeds. The federal minimum value itself is not in the data on this page. No running cost is written here, because pricing the 687 kWh depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff. Entering a ZIP lets the page compute it from that local rate. An installed price range is not available, since the cost database needs the machine-only energy that ENERGY STAR does not file here. Other models in this class can be checked against the same median from the list of all clothes washer pages.