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Top loader · 8 kg
LG WTX3-08W Washing Machine
LG WTX3-08W is a 8 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1751).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 5
- Annual electricity use
- 103 kWh
- Label: 181 kWh · 0.50 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $33 / year
- $330 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · Prewash+Cotton, Water Level 8, Temp(Hold 3 seconds), Temp(Cold + Hot) programme
64% less electricity than the median of 29 comparable 8 kg top loader washing machine registrations (500 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 97% of them. At your rates that is about $58 a year less than the median, $582 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg top loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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LG WTX3-08W specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.588
- Programme tested
- Prewash+Cotton, Water Level 8, Temp(Hold 3 seconds), Temp(Cold + Hot)
- Programme time
- 195 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 590 × 1,043 × 645 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 181 kWh
- Star rating index
- 5.00
- Country of manufacture
- China, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1751
- GEMS registration id
- 176721
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 8 February 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.