The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy sorts through the thousands of major home appliances and heating and cooling systems on the market and picks out those that are most efficient in their annual Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings. This year’s
top-rated refrigerators, clothes washers, dishwashers, air conditioners, and heat pumps are posted at their website. Information on furnaces, boilers, and water heaters will follow soon.
An efficient clothes washer, for example, saves about 100,000 gallons of water and
$750 -$1200 in energy and water bills during its lifetime. Similarly, a top-rated
central air conditioner consumes a third less power than a standard model.
ACEEE produces a number of other useful guides on remodeling, efficient commercial & office equipment, and the Green Guide to Cars & Trucks. There is a very useful Home Energy Checklist for Action on the website too.
If you are in New York State you can search the online NY State Energy Efficiency Directory on the Alliance to Save Energy website (check out the other useful features on this site). You can search for service providers by type of product, type of service, company name, or region of the state. Across the world
in India, you can do the same.
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