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Top loader · 10 kg
Midea MT512W100RD series Washing Machine
Midea MT512W100RD series is a 10 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1617).
- Capacity
- 10 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 170 kWh
- Label: 298 kWh · 0.82 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $54 / year
- $54 electricity + $0 water · $543 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · "Normal" + "High" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9"" programme
9% less electricity than the median of 35 comparable 10 kg top loader washing machine registrations (327 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 74% of them. At your rates that is about $5 a year less than the median, $53 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 10 kg top loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Midea MT512W100RD series specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 10.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.569
- Programme tested
- "Normal" + "High" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9""
- Programme time
- 393 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 601 × 1,050 × 620 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 298 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.55
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1617
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1617
- GEMS registration id
- 173252
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 23 September 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- MT512W100RD series
- 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.