New Zealand · costs in NZD
Front loader · 8 kg
LG WV*-1208 Washing Machine
LG WV*-1208 is a 8 kg front loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1444).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 140 kWh
- Label: 246 kWh · 0.67 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $46 / year
- $46 electricity + $0 water · $463 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Cotton Eco, 40℃, Spin 1200 programme
1% less electricity than the median of 102 comparable 8 kg front loader washing machine registrations (249 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 52% of them. At your rates that is about $0 a year less than the median, $5 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg front loader washing machine sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
Washing machines similar to the LG WV*-1208
No comparable registrations of the same type and size from other brands.
Compare WV*-1208 with another washing machine
LG WV*-1208 specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.562
- Programme tested
- Cotton Eco, 40℃, Spin 1200
- Programme time
- 399 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 600 × 850 × 470 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 246 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.50
- Country of manufacture
- China, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam
Other model numbers on registration ACW1444
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1444
- GEMS registration id
- 162562
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 20 August 2029
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Family
- WV*-1208
- 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.