LCD TVs of 2015 Consumed 76% Less Energy Than They Did in 2003, Says CTA
Modern LCD TVs consume less energy, even as sets increase in size and resolution, CTA reported Wednesday. CTA commissioned Fraunhofer to study 9,000 models of TVs marketed between 2003 and 2015, it said. It said 2015 TVs consumed 76 percent…
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less energy (per screen area) than in 2003, and it costs consumers on average 6 cents a day to power a TV. It’s “fundamental” that industry and government devise “a standardized way to measure energy use,” CTA said. “The consumer technology industry has initiated efforts at the domestic and international levels, with participation by governments and energy efficiency advocates, to update the current consensus measurement standard for TV energy use to reflect technology and market changes.” Lack of an updated test clip has been a sticking point of proceedings to draft Version 8.0 of EPA's Energy Star TV specification (see 1706280026). The Natural Resources Defense Fund agrees with the CTA study’s "core finding" that national TV energy use has gone down, Senior Scientist Noah Horowitz emailed us Wednesday. But TVs in some cases "use a lot more energy in a person’s home than the value reported by the industry," Horowitz said. "There are flaws in the test method specified by the government for measuring the energy use of new TVs and some manufacturers are exploiting them big time," he said, referencing NRDC's 2016 report accusing major TV makers of duping the public on TV energy use.