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Tightening the Belt on Large Screen TV Energy Consumption

Friday, August 31, 2012

Once a major component of our monthly electricity bill, big screen televisions have reduced their energy consumption over the last few years due to improvements in technology and energy efficiency programs. The U.S. EPA hopes to continue that trend by recently publishing the final draft of the next version of its ENERGY STAR® television program [...]

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ENERGY STAR® Imaging Equipment Update

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Last March I reported that the EPA was in the final stages of drafting its ENERGY STAR Imaging Equipment Spec, Version 2.0 (see: ENERGY STAR Imaging Equipment Spec Moves Forward). The latest draft was recently released and includes the following proposed changes. Expanded scope of allowable variations within product families New digital front end (DFE) [...]

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Version 3 of ENERGY STAR A/V Spec is Complete

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Last year I reported that ENERGY STAR was bypassing tier 3 of the current version of its Audio Visual (AV) program specifications in order to keep up with rapid advances in AV technology (see: Leapfrogging to Version 3). It took a little longer than originally projected, but the Final Version 3.0 ENERGY STAR® Audio/Video specification [...]

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ENERGY STAR® Luminaires Spec is Almost Here

Friday, March 23, 2012

Last June I wrote about the effective date for the new ENERGY STAR luminaires spec (v1.1) being postponed until April of this year (see blog: ENERGY STAR Extends Effective Date for New Luminaires Spec). With April less than a month away, I thought it would be a good time for a reminder. I mentioned in [...]

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Final UPS Spec is Right Around the Corner

Friday, March 23, 2012

A year ago this month I reported that ENERGY STAR® had released the test method for its uninterruptible power supply spec and that we should see the final spec sometime in July. (See blog: New Developments for Uninterruptible Power Supply Spec.) It took a little longer than expected, but this month ENERGY STAR released its [...]

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Turning a Technology-Neutral Eye Towards Efficient Light Bulbs

Monday, November 14, 2011

When comparing performance and reliability of an ENERGY STAR compliant CFL light bulb to an ENERGY STAR compliant LED light bulb, it can get confusing. Last week, the U.S. EPA got one step closer towards ending the confusion and overlap between different efficiency lighting programs by publishing its first draft of a specification that harmonizes [...]

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ENERGY STAR® Begins Display Update Process

Thursday, June 23, 2011

The U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR team has just released Draft 1 of a new version of its Program Requirements Product Specification for Displays. The proposed Version 6 draft of the efficiency spec was developed in cooperation with the European Commission and is intended to replace the current Version 5.1 which has been in effect since [...]

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