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Front loader · 10 kg
Chiq WFL100SG1 Washing Machine
Chiq WFL100SG1 is a 10 kg front loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1637).
A newer registration of this model exists: ACW1755.
- Capacity
- 10 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 164 kWh
- Label: 288 kWh · 0.79 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $53 / year
- $525 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · Cotton, 40℃, 1400 rpm programme
19% more electricity than the median of 76 comparable 10 kg front loader washing machine registrations (243 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 29% of them. At your rates that is about $8 a year more than the median, $82 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 10 kg front loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Chiq WFL100SG1 specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 10.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.616
- Programme tested
- Cotton, 40℃, 1400 rpm
- Programme time
- 314 min
- Internal heater
- Yes
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 600 × 847 × 636 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 288 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.51
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1637
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1637
- GEMS registration id
- 173204
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 13 October 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- WFL100 series
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2021 +A1
Source: Australian Government Energy Rating (GEMS) registration data, DCCEEW via data.gov.au (CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 22 September 2026; last checked 23 September 2026. How the derived figures are calculated.