Miele WWD160 Running Cost (Washing Machine)
What the Miele WWD160 costs to run
The Miele WWD160 is certified by ENERGY STAR at 116 kWh a year, about average for its category to run among washing machines currently certified.
The $22 figure above uses the simple average of all 51 published state rates. Pick your state for the real number.
Miele WWD160 against the category
That's 5.7% below the washing machine category average of 123 kWh/yr, and ranks 211 of 398 certified washing machines for annual running cost, 1 being cheapest. The category average comes from every washing machine ENERGY STAR currently certifies (398 models), not an outside benchmark, about $1/year below that average at the national rate. See the methodology page.
What sits beside it in the ranking
Miele WWD660 ($22/yr, 116 kWh/yr) costs a little more to run than the Miele WWD160. Midea MLHW52S7AWW ($21/yr, 112 kWh/yr) costs a little less.
Within the Miele lineup
Miele sells 9 certified washing machines; this one runs cheapest of them, about the same, within a dollar a year, under the WXR960, its priciest.
What this adds up to over time
NAHB's Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components puts a typical washing machine's service life at 10 years; run the Miele WWD160 that long and it costs about $218 in electricity, on top of whatever it cost to buy.
Is it worth replacing?
The Miele WWD160 is already efficient for its category at $22/year. If you're shopping and comparing options, this is roughly what a well-chosen new washing machine costs to run.
Compare current ENERGY STAR certified washing machines before buying.
Protecting what you have
Whether or not the Miele WWD160 ever needs replacing, a repair is the more common failure for a washing machine, one a protection plan budgets for ahead of time.
Sourcing
Two sourced numbers, nothing modeled: ENERGY STAR's certified kWh/yr for this exact model, and EIA's published state electricity rate. The full Washing Machine category page shows all 398 washing machines ranked by cost; the state-rate guide covers the half of this number that isn't the appliance.