New Zealand · costs in NZD
Top loader · 12 kg
LG WTL9-12B Washing Machine
LG WTL9-12B is a 12 kg top loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1345).
- Capacity
- 12 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 201 kWh
- Label: 352 kWh · 0.96 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $118 / year
- $66 electricity + $52 water · $1,182 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 119.1 L · Eco Cotton, Press Water Level for more than 3 seconds, Temp. Warm programme
3% less electricity than the median of 25 comparable 11 to 12 kg top loader washing machine registrations (364 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 56% of them. At your rates that is about $2 a year less than the median, $23 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 11 to 12 kg top loader washing machine sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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LG WTL9-12B specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 12.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 119.1 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.605
- Programme tested
- Eco Cotton, Press Water Level for more than 3 seconds, Temp. Warm
- Programme time
- 214 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 690 × 1,070 × 730 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 352 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.50
- Country of manufacture
- Thailand
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1345
- GEMS registration id
- 155374
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 12 July 2028
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- 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.