Link to Forbes.com (May 13, 2025) | If you’ve shopped for appliances in the last two decades, you’ve probably seen the yellow Energy Star product stickers showing your estimated electrical costs for using it. Maybe they helped you select one clothes washer over the other or narrowed your selection to three refrigerators from six. …This voluntary public-private partnership may be eliminated in a federal restructuring, and feelings among industry professionals about that are mixed.
…Ben Stapleton, the US Green Building Council California’s executive director, points to the program’s widespread benefits: “Energy Star provides a trusted and critical resource for homeowners to assess all kinds of appliances for their energy use. The value of having a trusted third party for this cannot be understated.”
He notes that there are other energy efficiency standards available, but many are more technically oriented and hard for consumers to understand. “Energy Star has been one of the most effective programs ever put forth in this space, pushing the envelope for reducing energy use not just here in the US, but globally, this will create a vacuum that will be difficult to fill.” (Read full article)
Photo credit: Getty
