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Top loader · 12 kg
Kogan KAWWASHT12E Washing Machine
Kogan KAWWASHT12E is a 12 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1280).
- Capacity
- 12 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 1.5
- Annual electricity use
- 678 kWh
- Label: 1,190 kWh · 3.3 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $217 / year
- $217 electricity + $0 water · $2,170 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Cotton programme
227% more 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 0% of them. At your rates that is about $151 a year more than the median, $1,506 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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Kogan KAWWASHT12E specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 12.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.813
- Programme tested
- Cotton
- Programme time
- 162 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 1190 kWh
- Star rating index
- 1.53
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1280
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1280
- GEMS registration id
- 150971
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 4 December 2027
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- KAWWASHT12*
- 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: whirlpool.com.cn. How the derived figures are calculated.