Save Energy with Energy Star Appliances
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The Energy Star is the symbol that marks the international standard of energy efficiency for all sorts of electronic products from computers and kitchen appliances to buildings and peripherals. The Energy Star standard has been adopted by Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan and EU after being first introduced in the United States in 1992. The great thing about products that carry the Energy Star label is that they save around 20% or 30% on electricity, which is rewarding since both the environment and the user’s finances benefit from it. Electronic equipment with the Energy Star certification also combine low energy usage with good space features.
The introduction of the Energy Star standard resulted from the ever higher threat of the greenhouse effect to which power plants have a massive contribution. The one that supervised the development and the implementation of the Energy Star program was John Hoffman, the creator of other green programs. Initially, the whole project was meant to increase population awareness about the presence of energy efficient products on the market, and computers were the first to carry the Energy Star label. After 1995, the standard extended to residential heating and cooling systems as well as to home building. The year 2006 brought a true explosion of products marked with the Energy Star and servicing a variety of activity sectors.
Energy savings of up to 20% have been registered with refrigerators, while dishwashers have a huge saving rate of 41%. Moreover, the annual cost of the operation for the cooling and heating systems manufactured according to the Energy Star standards is indicated on the label for the buyer to appreciate and compare with other standard methods. The Department of Energy is the only institution that can label a product as energy efficient or not. This energy saving project has reached such technological levels that there are electronic products that use with 90% less energy.
Different kinds of lighting systems now carry the Energy Star symbol, and the implementation of fluorescent lighting is presently demanded by law, with incandescent lamps banned from countries like Australia for instance. Light bulbs that carry the Energy Star symbol use 75% less energy than their incandescent counterparts; furthermore, they can be used anywhere for indoor and outdoor lighting, for emergency lighting systems and complex corporation projects. Even the light decorations we make for Christmas should carry the Energy Star symbol. As the mass education progresses, such energy saving utilities will come to replace the older models that indirectly trigger environment destruction.
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