New Zealand · costs in NZD
Front loader · 10 kg
Bosch WGH254ARAU Washing Machine
Bosch WGH254ARAU is a 10 kg front loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1633).
- Capacity
- 10 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 5.5
- Annual electricity use
- 103 kWh
- Label: 181 kWh · 0.50 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $34 / year
- $34 electricity + $0 water · $340 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Cottons Eco, 60°C, 1400 rpm programme
26% less electricity than the median of 87 comparable 10 kg front loader washing machine registrations (244 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 98% of them. At your rates that is about $12 a year less than the median, $118 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 10 kg front loader washing machine sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Bosch WGH254ARAU specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 10.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.540
- Programme tested
- Cottons Eco, 60°C, 1400 rpm
- Programme time
- 345 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 181 kWh
- Star rating index
- 5.50
- Country of manufacture
- Spain
Other model numbers on registration ACW1633
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1633
- GEMS registration id
- 173061
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 30 September 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- F55C-AVG1.5CU
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2005/Amdt 3:2010
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. How the derived figures are calculated.