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Top loader · 7 kg
Haier HWT70FVW3 Washing Machine
Haier HWT70FVW3 is a 7 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1279).
- Capacity
- 7 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 2.5
- Annual electricity use
- 272 kWh
- Label: 478 kWh · 1.3 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $87 / year
- $87 electricity + $0 water · $872 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Eco, Water level: High, Water temp: Warm programme
7% more electricity than the median of 28 comparable 7 kg top loader washing machine registrations (449 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 39% of them. At your rates that is about $5 a year more than the median, $54 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 7 kg top loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Haier HWT70FVW3 specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 7.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.645
- Programme tested
- Eco, Water level: High, Water temp: Warm
- Programme time
- 140 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 478 kWh
- Star rating index
- 2.62
- Country of manufacture
- China
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1279
- GEMS registration id
- 151322
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 30 November 2027
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, 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. How the derived figures are calculated.