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The first half of 2012 has brought some movement to the European Commission’s Ecodesign Directive for ErPs. Potential regulation drafts (known as Working Documents) for a number of products have been distributed for discussion in Regulatory Committees. The lot that affects room air conditioners, Lot 10, has been approved and will become effective early next [...]

China has just published its first Set-Top Box (STB) efficiency standard, GB 25957-2010. While other government agencies (i.e., ENERGY STAR, EC Code of Conduct) have already gone through multiple generations of STB efficiency programs (settling on a methodology that limits the total typical energy consumption (TEC) in kWh that a complex STB consumes annually), China [...]

Based on last month’s ENERGY STAR Game Console stakeholder call, it looks like there are still a few more hoops to jump through in order to reach the program’s “Game Over” screen.  As mentioned in an earlier blog, ENERGY STAR Gets Serious About Games, the power consumed by these consoles (i.e., Wii, Xbox, PlayStation, etc.) [...]