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Front loader · 8 kg
Whirlpool WWPB8502IW Washer Dryer
Whirlpool WWPB8502IW is a 8 kg front loader washer dryer registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1528). The registered figures are for its wash cycle.
- Wash capacity
- 8 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 142 kWh
- Label: 250 kWh · 0.68 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $47 / year
- $470 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · Cotton 40°C, 1400rpm programme
3% more electricity than the median of 26 comparable 8 kg front loader washer dryer registrations (244 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 42% of them. At your rates that is about $1 a year more than the median, $11 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg front loader washer dryer sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Whirlpool WWPB8502IW specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- Yes
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.542
- Programme tested
- Cotton 40°C, 1400rpm
- Programme time
- 314 min
- Internal heater
- Yes
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 250 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.51
- Country of manufacture
- China
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1528
- GEMS registration id
- 167704
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 19 March 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2021
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 22 September 2026; last checked 23 September 2026. Manufacturer: whirlpool.com.au. How the derived figures are calculated.