{"id":1647,"date":"2011-10-17T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2021-02-20T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:29:51","slug":"is-there-evidence-that-higher-energy-efficiency-standards-benefit-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/is-there-evidence-that-higher-energy-efficiency-standards-benefit-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there evidence that higher energy efficiency standards benefit consumers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refrigerators are a prime example of the benefits of increasing energy efficiency standards.\u00a0 In the early 1970\u2019s, refrigerators were among the most costly appliances to own and run.\u00a0 Manufacturers made no effort to improve energy efficiency because they were concerned about the cost and risk involved and a perceived lack of consumer interest.\u00a0 Beginning that year, appliance manufacturers and the government worked together to create higher standards that have steadily increased over time.<\/p>\n<p>The mandated standards created a level playing field and spawned a wave of innovation that continues today.\u00a0 Compared to a refrigerators purchased in 1975, today\u2019s refrigerators are <strong>larger<\/strong>, have <strong>more features<\/strong> (ice makers, through the door water dispensers, touch screens, etc.), <strong>cost less<\/strong> and use<strong> 75% less energy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/articles\/proof-pudding-how-refrigerator-standards-have-saved-consumers-billions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reference from US Department of Energy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refrigerators are a prime example of the benefits of increasing energy efficiency standards.\u00a0 In the early 1970\u2019s, refrigerators were among the most costly appliances to own and run.\u00a0 Manufacturers made no effort to improve energy efficiency because they were concerned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-communities-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}