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Major Revisions Booting-up in Version 6 of ENERGY STAR’s Computer Program?

Monday, June 11, 2012

The U.S. EPA continues on their quest to reduce computer energy waste. A couple of weeks ago, I attended a stakeholder meeting held to discuss draft 2, version 2 of the ENERGY STAR® Program Requirements for Computers. Over the years, computer program specs have gotten more comprehensive (and complicated). Early versions consisted of simple modal [...]

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China to Begin Computing with Less Energy

Friday, June 17, 2011

Last month I wrote about India’s new BEE Star computer efficiency labeling program, setting requirements for notebooks sold in that country (desktops will follow later). This program fully adopts the US EPA’s current ENERGY STAR® computer program (version 5.2) which limits the energy a computer can consume in non-active modes as well as the minimum [...]

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