How buying the right TV will save $1.34 billion in annual energy costs
Taking a Million Households Off the Grid
Since it's difficult to grasp what 11.2 billion kWh actually means, let's convert that into people. Using the EIA's average consumption benchmark, this translates into 996,454 households worth of energy that could be saved by choosing the more energy efficient 37 inch TV. When you think about it, this would be the same as taking the cities of Boston and San Francisco off the grid. And in terms of reducing CO2 emissions, it would be comparable to removing 1.5 million passenger cars from the road.
This scale and impact of simple purchase decisions, led us to create the Enervee Score which we like to think of as the MPG (miles per gallon) rating for electronics and appliances. And the best part is that by choosing TVs with a higher Enervee Score you can save money and save the planet at the same time without making sacrifices on the latest product features.
Score my TV
To help you figure out whether it is the right time to upgrade your TV, we have released a "Score my TV" app that scores the energy efficiency of TVs dating all the way back to the 1990s.
For now we have only released the Enervee Score for TVs, but we plan to have over 20 product categories scored by the end of the year. Imagine if the example above also included the potential savings for all of the appliances and electronics in the home - the impact to US consumers would be tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars.