The standards get more strict all the time. The reason everything has an Energy Star label is because consumers are going to prefer the appliance that meets it.

From the Energy Star website, savings since 2020:

  - Electricity: 520 billion kilowatt-hours
  - Energy costs: $42 billion
  - GHG emissions: 400 million metric tons

But, I guess you-know. What a lousy government intervention. Centralizing a bit of extra up front engineering work to save $billions in wasted energy. Give me back all of those energy vampires that used to be so prevalent. Like standby modes that only turned off the power LED.

https://www.energystar.gov/about/impacts

▲ philipallstar 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Centralizing a bit of extra up front engineering work

What engineering was centralised? Isn't it just a label?

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3eb7988a1663 3 days ago | parent [-]

Sloppy wording on my part. Just that the firms designing equipment could put in the effort to meet efficiency guidelines. To consumers, it is just a label on the product, but I am sure the official testing/validation requirements are some amount of work.

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philipallstar 2 days ago | parent [-]

Ah okay. Yes - I agree that each individual firm had to do this work, and should get credit for the progress they've enabled.

	▲	Iwan-Zotow 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But if all of products have this label - what is the point?

▲ Iwan-Zotow 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That was not the point. I read somewhere that more than 90% of all appliances sold had ES label. Differentiation power of label and program is gone.