New Zealand · costs in NZD
Condenser · 7 kg
Electrolux UC3 Clothes Dryer
Electrolux UC3 is a 7 kg condenser clothes dryer registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACD0789).
- Capacity
- 7 kg
- Condenser
- Energy rating
- 2
- Annual electricity use
- 315 kWh
- Label: 315 kWh · 6.1 kWh per load
- Estimated running cost
- $104 / year
- $1,040 over 10 years
- Control
- Auto-sensing · Eco Cottons programme
127% more electricity than the median of 19 comparable 7 kg condenser dryer registrations (139 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 0% of them. At your rates that is about $58 a year more than the median, $581 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 7 kg condenser dryer 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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Electrolux UC3 specifications
- Type (government)
- Condenser
- Rated capacity
- 7.0 kg
- Combination washer-dryer
- No
- Control
- autosensing
- Programme tested
- Eco Cottons
- Programme time
- 194 min
- Moisture removed in test
- 5.60 kg
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 600 × 850 × 625 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 315 kWh
- Star rating index
- 2.01
- Country of manufacture
- Thailand
Other model numbers on registration ACD0789
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACD0789
- GEMS registration id
- 163556
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 25 July 2029
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Family
- UC3
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2442.1:1996/Amdt 4:2006
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.