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FIGURE 8-1 You can see which electronic devices have earned EPEAT certification at the EPEAT website. PART III

Energy Star
EPEAT and RoHS are certainly important certifications, and they’re becoming more
prevalent, but the biggest and most well-known program for certifying energy-efficient
electronics in the United States is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Energy
Star program. Like EPEAT, hardware must meet specific standards in order to be Energy
Star certified. In this case, however, those standards are based on power consumption.
In this section, we’ll take a closer look at what it takes to be Energy Star certified and
what that means for computers, monitors, and other devices.

Computers
Computers have been certified under the Energy Star program for years. In 2007, the EPA
made Energy Star certification even more stringent. The EPA estimates that by toughening