How is hot water energy use affected by clothes washers, dishwashers, pool heaters, and hot tubs?
Whether or not your household has a clothes washer, it is assumed that everyone uses one. In other words, the clothes washer you use does not have to be in your house or apartment. It could be in a laundromat or in another house you, a family member, friend or neighbour owns. Your emissions from using a clothes washer are automatically included in your personal hot water heating emissions. Not everyone has one, but a modern dishwasher uses as much or less hot water than the average person washing dishes by hand. Dishwashers only consume more energy and create more greenhouse gas emissions from hot water use when a special feature, such as a “pots and pans” cycle is used. In the calculator, it is assumed that a normal cycle is used. Therefore, the amount of hot water used by a dishwasher is assumed to be the same as if you were washing dishes by hand, and the hot water emissions from dishwashing are automatically included in your personal hot water heating emissions. However, dishwasher
