You are, I’m sure, familiar with the Energy Star certification. It’s a little yellow sticker found on all appliances that claim to show you what it will cost per year to run them under average usage. Of course, no one can really determine what average usage is. For a refrigerator, how many times a day do you open it? How full is it? For a washer or dryer, how many loads a day pass through it?
The same for a television, perhaps even more so. How many hours is it on per day? And how is the picture adjusted. New developments, such as HDR, add a whole new layer to this.
Energy Star was initially launched by the EPA, and is now managed and run by them and the Department of Energy. And while Energy Star certification isn’t mandatory, it might as well be. No retailer is going to stock an appliance without being able to point to that little sticker that says it will cost only $100 a year to run it—no matter how inexact that number is for the average consumer...
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