Audio Equipment and DVD Products
- Save more by bundling your ENERGY STAR home electronics, such as TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and home audio equipment.
- If all DVDs sold carried the ENERGY STAR, it would mean 6 billion pounds less air pollution--a decrease equal to taking 75,000 cars off the road.
- ENERGY STAR-qualified DVD players come with all the latest features, including progressive scan.
Digital-to-Analog Converter Boxes (DTAs)
- If all DTAs sold in the U.S. met the ENERGY STAR specification, Americans could save approximately 13 billion kWh and $1 billion in energy costs over the lifetime of the products, and could reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking more than 1 million cars off the road.
Telephones
- Look for ENERGY STAR-qualified cordless phones that feature switch-mode power supplies and "smart" chargers for added energy savings.
Televisions and VCRs
- ENERGY STAR-qualified VCRs use about 30 percent less total energy than standard units
- Energy consumption from today’s TVs, when combined with related products like DVD players and set-top boxes, amounts to about 10 percent of a household’s annual electricity bill.
Office Equipment
Desktop Computers and Laptop Computers
- If all U.S. households and businesses replaced old computers with new ENERGY STAR-qualified models, we would save more than $1.8 billion in energy costs over the next five years and avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the output of more than 2.7 million cars.
- If every computer purchased by businesses next year met the new ENERGY STAR requirements, businesses would save more than $210 million in energy costs over the lifetime of those models. That's equivalent to lighting 120 million square feet of U.S. commercial building space each year.
Printers and Scanners
- On average, ENERGY STAR-qualified imaging equipment that meets the new imaging equipment specification is 25 percent more efficient than conventional models. This would save consumers more than $3 billion over the next five years and avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of more than 4 million vehicles.
- This year, approximately 260 million imaging equipment products will consume more than $7.5 billion in energy, accounting for 3 percent of U.S. electricity expenditures.
Monitors
- Enabling your monitor’s ENERGY STAR power management features can save your office from $10 to $30 per monitor, per year.
HVAC
Programmable Thermostats
- With proper use, programmable thermostats can save about $150 every year in energy costs.
- It’s easy to forget to adjust the thermostat when leaving the house or going to bed, and it takes time for the house to cool off (or warm up) once the thermostat is adjusted, which can be uncomfortable. Here's where a programmable thermostat pays off, because it automatically adjusts the temperature when you're not home, and when you go to sleep. Total energy savings will depend on the climate in your area, and the insulation materials, and heating and cooling system, in your house.
Residential Ceiling Fans
- ENERGY STAR-qualified ceiling fans with lights are about 50 percent more efficient than conventional fan/light units, saving you more than $15 per year in energy costs.
- On hotter days, dialing up the air conditioning thermostat by only two degrees and using your ceiling fan can lower air conditioning costs by up to 14 percent over the course of the cooling season.
Lighting Products
Residential Light Fixtures
- ENERGY STAR-qualified bulbs and fixtures produce about 75 percent less heat, so they’re safer to operate and can cut energy costs associated with home cooling.
- If every American replaced just one light bulb or fixture with an ENERGY STAR-qualified one, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, we would save more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and we would prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
- If every American home replaced its five most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them with the ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR, we would save close to $8 billion each year in energy costs, and together we’d prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 10 million cars.
- By replacing your home’s five most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them with ENERGY STAR-qualified models, you can save more than $65 each year.
Screw-Based Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)
- An ENERGY STAR-qualified CFL comes with a two-year warranty.
- ENERGY STAR-qualified bulbs and fixtures use about 75 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer.
- An ENERGY STAR-qualified light bulb or fixture produces at least 400 pounds less of greenhouse gas emissions over its lifetime than does an incandescent bulb, the equivalent of keeping nearly 200 pounds of coal from being burned.
- An ENERGY STAR-qualified CFL can save about $7 in electricity costs each year.Appliances
Clothes Washers
- ENERGY STAR-qualified clothes washers use about 55 percent less water and 40 to 50 percent less energy, for annual household savings of about $50.
- Full-size ENERGY STAR-qualified washers use 15 to 25 gallons of water per load, compared to the 30 to 35 gallons used by a standard machine.
Dishwashers
- New ENERGY STAR-qualified dishwashers are at least 41 percent more efficient than standard new models.
Room Air Conditioners
- If every room air conditioner sold were ENERGY STAR-qualified, 1.2 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions would be prevented, an amount equal to the emissions of more than 100,000 cars.
- ENERGY STAR-qualified room air conditioners use at least 10 percent less energy than standard models.
Other Products
Battery Charging Systems (BCSs)
- Unplug battery chargers or power adapters when equipment is fully charged or disconnected from the charger.
- Conventional battery chargers--even when not actively charging a product--can draw as much as 5 to 20 times more power than is needed to maintain the battery’s charge.
- ENERGY STAR-qualified battery chargers are 40 percent more efficient than conventional models, saving consumers over $500 million a year.
External Power Supplies
- In the U.S., the total amount of electricity that flows through internal and external power adapters is nearly 300 billion kWh/yr or about 11% of the nation’s annual electricity consumption. During the process these devices consume nearly 100 billion kWh per year of electricity and turn it into heat, costing the nation over $10 billion in electric bills.
- The EPA estimates that there are five power adapters for every person in the U.S.--as many as 1.5 billion in total. More efficient power adapters have the potential to save over 5 billion kWh of energy annually.
- Efficient power adapters would prevent more than 4 million tons of CO2 emissions, an amount equal to the emissions of more than 700,000 cars.
- Efficient power adapters would create savings of close to $500 million on energy bills.
Room Air Cleaners
- A typical room air cleaner, operating continuously, uses approximately 790 kWh per year in electricity--50 percent more energy than is used by a new refrigerator!
