Why Buy ENERGY STAR Qualified Washers?

ENERGY STAR Qualified clothes washers use about 30% less energy compared to regular washers, and they use about 50% less water.

Use less water. A full-sized ENERGY STAR qualified clothes washers uses 14 gallons of water per load, compared to the 27 gallons used by a standard machine. That's 50 percent less water, per load. Over the machine's lifetime, that's a savings of 43,000 gallons of water!!

Use less energy. On average, a new ENERGY STAR qualified clothes washer uses 270 kWh of electricity and costs $60 to run, each year.

Is your washer over 10 years old? It's estimated that there are 84 million top-loading washers with agitators, 24 million of which are at least 10 years old, still in use across the country. Washers manufactured before 1998 are significantly less efficient than newer models. Together, these inefficient washers cost consumers $2.6 billion each year in energy and water.