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Top loader · 8 kg
Midea MT512W80RUW Washing Machine
Midea MT512W80RUW is a 8 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1620).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 3
- Annual electricity use
- 268 kWh
- Label: 470 kWh · 1.3 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $86 / year
- $86 electricity + $0 water · $857 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · "Normal" + "High" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9"" programme
6% 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 55% of them. At your rates that is about $5 a year less than the median, $55 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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Midea MT512W80RUW specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.624
- Programme tested
- "Normal" + "High" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9""
- Programme time
- 301 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 580 × 1,015 × 596 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 470 kWh
- Star rating index
- 3.00
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1620
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1620
- GEMS registration id
- 173243
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 23 September 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- MT512W80RU 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.