The Energy Star is the symbol that marks the international standard of energy efficiency for all sorts of electronic products from computers and kitchen appliances (especially high efficiency refrigerators) to buildings and peripherals. The Energy Star was introduced in the United States in 1992, and it has been adopted by Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, the European Union and Taiwan. The great thing about products that carry the Energy Star label is that they save around 20% or 30% on electricity, which is advantageous from the money saving perspective as well as from the environmental point of view. Electronic equipment with the Energy Star certification also combine low energy usage with good space features.
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The very creation of the Energy Star standard comes from the environmental concern because of the high emission level of power plants. The one that supervised the development and the implementation of the Energy Star program was John Hoffman, the creator of other green programs. Initially, the whole project was meant to increase population awareness about the presence of energy efficient products on the market, and computers were the first to carry the Energy Star label. After 1995, the standard extended to residential heating and cooling systems as well as to home building. The year 2006 brought a true explosion of products marked with the Energy Star and servicing a variety of activity sectors.
Energy savings of up to 20% have been registered with refrigerators, while dishwashers have a huge saving rate of 41%. Moreover, the annual cost of the operation for the cooling and heating systems manufactured according to the Energy Star standards is indicated on the label for the buyer to appreciate and compare with other standard methods. The Department of Energy is the only institution that can label a product as energy efficient or not. This energy saving project has reached such technological levels that there are electronic products that use with 90% less energy.
The Energy Star applies to all sorts of lighting systems, and the use of fluorescent lighting is presently regulated by law, since countries like Austraia have condemned the use of incandescent lamps for good. Light bulbs that carry the Energy Star symbol use 75% less energy than their incandescent counterparts; furthermore, they find applications anywhere for indoor and outdoor purposes, for emergency lights and complex corporation projects. Even the light decorations we make for Christmas should carry the Energy Star symbol. As the mass education progresses, such energy saving utilities will come to replace the older models that indirectly trigger environment destruction.