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Front loader · 8 kg
Miele WEA125 Washing Machine
Miele WEA125 is a 8 kg front loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1530).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 145 kWh
- Label: 255 kWh · 0.70 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $48 / year
- $48 electricity + $0 water · $480 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · ECO 40-60 programme
3% more 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 46% of them. At your rates that is about $1 a year more than the median, $12 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.
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Miele WEA125 specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.520
- Programme tested
- ECO 40-60
- Programme time
- 263 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 596 × 850 × 636 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 255 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.52
- Country of manufacture
- Czechia, Poland
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1530
- GEMS registration id
- 168200
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 20 March 2030
- 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. Manufacturer: miele.com.au. How the derived figures are calculated.