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Front loader · 6 kg
Stirling STR-FLW6W Washing Machine
Stirling STR-FLW6W is a 6 kg front loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1719).
- Capacity
- 6 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 3.5
- Annual electricity use
- 139 kWh
- Label: 244 kWh · 0.67 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $46 / year
- $459 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · Intensive (Temp. is"40°C", Spin Speed is "1200rpm", Program time is "238min") programme
11% less electricity than the median of 41 comparable under 7 kg front loader washing machine registrations (273 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 56% of them. At your rates that is about $5 a year less than the median, $55 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered under 7 kg front loader washing machine sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Stirling STR-FLW6W specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 6.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.700
- Programme tested
- Intensive (Temp. is"40°C", Spin Speed is "1200rpm", Program time is "238min")
- Programme time
- 238 min
- Internal heater
- Yes
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 244 kWh
- Star rating index
- 3.69
- Country of manufacture
- China
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1719
- GEMS registration id
- 173493
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 29 December 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 +A1
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.