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Top loader · 5.5 kg
Euromaid ETL550FCW Washing Machine
Euromaid ETL550FCW is a 5.5 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1196).
- Capacity
- 5.5 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 2
- Annual electricity use
- 240 kWh
- Label: 421 kWh · 1.2 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $77 / year
- $77 electricity + $0 water · $768 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Daily programme
1% less electricity than the median of 33 comparable under 7 kg top loader washing machine registrations (426 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 55% of them. At your rates that is about $1 a year less than the median, $9 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered under 7 kg top loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Euromaid ETL550FCW specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 5.5 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.747
- Programme tested
- Daily
- Programme time
- 88 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 515 × 910 × 525 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 421 kWh
- Star rating index
- 2.23
- Country of manufacture
- China
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1196
- GEMS registration id
- 145310
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 8 March 2027
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2005/Amdt 3:2010
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. Manufacturer: glendimplex.com.au. How the derived figures are calculated.