initiative started almost one-and-a-half year back for energy
efficiency has finally made government make some move which today
announced energy efficiency label for laptops.
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) today announced BEE Star Label
version 1 for laptops. The guidelines announced by BEE are based on
United Sates Energy version 5 guidelines.
"US Star energy version 5 is the base for BEE standard announced
today," said Ashwini Aggarwal, executive editor, Manufacturers'
Association for Information Technology.
"This had been long awaited launch. It is going to sidelines low
quality products in the market, especially cheap and energy
inefficient imported products," added Aggarwal.
P Umashankar, secretary, Ministry of Power appreciated timing of
issuing the BEE guidelines.
"Laptops consume 0.5 per cent of total power generated in the country.
Their sales is growing at approximately 25 per cent. Therefore I am
glad that guidelines have come at the right time," said Umashankar.
The guideline announced today will be extended to other categories of
IT and Telecom products in a phased manner by BEE.
"In this year, the guidelines for some other IT products will be
announced. After laptops, guidelines for printers, then desktop will
be announced. Gradually we will cover entire range of IT products but
it will happen in a phased manner," said Ajay Mathur, director
general, BEE.
Unlike BEE star labels which indicate the efficiency of products like
refrigerator, air-conditioner and others, these guidelines do not
specify the levels of energy saving that a product will deliver to
consumer.
"It will only indicate either product is energy efficient or it is
not. The energy efficiency of the product will be computed on annual
basis based on a formula that had been mentioned in the guideline,"
Mathur said.
On energy efficiency difference between a non-certified and certified
product, Aggarwal explained that during research it was found that
non-certified products will consume at least 40 per cent more energy
that the certified one.
However, Aggarwal added that most of the laptops available in India
qualify the guidelines announced by BEE.
"It was only 3 out of 20 laptops that failed to qualify," said Aggarwal.
The move to come up with energy efficiency labels was proposed by
India Chapter of Climate Savers Computing Initiative in July 2009.
MAIT was one of the proposer of this programme.
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