New Zealand · costs in NZD
Freestanding · 14 place settings
Award DWC4S Dishwasher
Award DWC4S is a 14-place freestanding dishwasher registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ZDW0234).
- Capacity
- 14 place
- Freestanding
- Energy rating
- 3
- Annual electricity use
- 294 kWh
- Label: 295 kWh · 0.81 kWh per cycle
- Estimated running cost
- $116 / year
- $97 electricity + $19 water · $1,162 over 10 years
- Water per cycle
- 25.0 L · ECO programme
7% more electricity than the median of 134 comparable 13–14 place freestanding dishwasher registrations (275 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 30% of them. At your rates that is about $7 a year more than the median, $66 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 13–14 place freestanding dishwasher sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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Award DWC4S specifications
- Type
- Freestanding
- Place settings
- 14
- Water per cycle (labelled programme)
- 25.0 L
- Programme tested
- ECO
- Programme time
- 174 min
- Water connection
- Single
- Water softener
- Yes
- Delay start
- No
- Standby power
- 0.49 W
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 598 × 845 × 600 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 295 kWh
- Star rating index
- 3.31
- Country of manufacture
- China
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ZDW0234
- GEMS registration id
- 134610
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- n/a (NZ registration)
- Registered for sale in
- New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- EE Amendment Regulations 2025 Schedule 2D
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2007.1:2005
Source: E3 programme registration data (EECA, New Zealand) (trans-Tasman E3 registration data published by DCCEEW on data.gov.au, CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 20 September 2026; last checked 20 September 2026. How the derived figures are calculated.