Ee At Work

摘要

Think big early, and you're a lot more efficient in the long-run. That's the lesson from Pacific Gas & Electric Company's (PG&E'S) pilot program for consumer electronics-an initiative to work directly with manufacturers and retailers to get energy-efficient electronics to users and, ultimately, energy savings to customers in California.rnToday the average U.S. household owns 25 electronic devices-TVs, computers, game consoles, printers, cell phones, etc. Such devices account for 11 percent of consumer and almost 6 percent of nonresidential U.S. electricity use. Electronics load is also the fastest growing use of electricity, more than three times the rate of overall load growth.