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Top loader · 12 kg
Hisense HWT5I12B Washing Machine
Hisense HWT5I12B is a 12 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1800).
- Capacity
- 12 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 5
- Annual electricity use
- 149 kWh
- Label: 262 kWh · 0.72 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $48 / year
- $478 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · ‘Cotton’, Water level 5, Soak 60 minutes, Temperature C+H programme
28% less electricity than the median of 23 comparable 11 to 12 kg top loader washing machine registrations (364 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 96% of them. At your rates that is about $19 a year less than the median, $186 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 11 to 12 kg top loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Hisense HWT5I12B specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 12.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.608
- Programme tested
- ‘Cotton’, Water level 5, Soak 60 minutes, Temperature C+H
- Programme time
- 365 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 650 × 1,095 × 685 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 262 kWh
- Star rating index
- 5.01
- Country of manufacture
- China
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1800
- GEMS registration id
- 179540
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 25 May 2031
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2021 +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.