Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances, 10–12 November 1997, Florence, Italy

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Opening Session....Pages 1-6
Appliances, Energy, and the Environment: The Scale of the Issue....Pages 7-13
Impact of Energy and Environmental Issues on the Globalisation of the Industry and Markets....Pages 14-16
Energy consumption of household appliances....Pages 17-21
Appliance Energy Efficiency: Opportunities, Barriers, and Policy Solutions....Pages 22-37
Energy efficiency in the domestic sector, what can utilities do?....Pages 38-42
Present Status of Residential Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards — An International Review....Pages 43-54
The U.S. Department of Energy’ s Appliance Energy Efficiency Process Improvement Effort....Pages 55-65
Impact of U.S. Energy Efficiency Requirements on Appliance Industry....Pages 66-76
The U.S. Experience in Appliance Energy Efficiency: Successful Past, Challenging Future....Pages 77-78
European Union Efforts to Promote More Efficient Appliances....Pages 79-88
The CECED Commitment for Clothes Washers....Pages 89-91
The EACEM Commitment for Tvs and VCRs....Pages 92-99
Appliance Energy Labels from Around the World....Pages 100-112
Understanding consumer behaviour: the implications for UK policy....Pages 113-124
The EU-Labelling Scheme: Does it Really Work for Consumers?....Pages 125-130
Making the Market Force Work: The E-rated Appliances Programme....Pages 131-137
Appliances on the Web: A New Tool to Inform Consumers....Pages 138-148
Changing patterns of air conditioning in Japan....Pages 149-157
End Use Measurement Campaigns of Electricity Specific Uses in the Residential Sector....Pages 158-170
Survey of Uses of Domestic Appliances in United Kingdom 1996....Pages 171-175
Experience of the Städtische Werke AG (the Municipal Utility of the City of Kassel, Germany) with Rebate Programmes for Energy-Efficient Household Appliances and Lamps Over the Last 4 Years....Pages 176-182
Utility’ s DSM Initiative Can Accelerate the Introduction of Energy Efficient Appliances....Pages 183-190
“Utility’ s DSM Initiative Can Accelerate the Introduction of Energy Efficient Appliances, the Danish Experience”....Pages 191-198
Energy Saving in Houses, Information to Families and Negotiating With Producers. Adiconsum Consumer Association Role in the Matter....Pages 199-203
The achievements in refrigeration appliances from the industrial point of view....Pages 204-208
Washing machines - latest developments in technology....Pages 209-217
Refrigerators, freezers and relevant standards....Pages 218-230
Refrigerators: developments in the European market....Pages 231-247
Technology Procurement: the development of the competition for A-rated driers....Pages 248-251
Development of the E- Polis instrument to evaluate the country specificity: the case of wet appliances....Pages 252-257
The Results of a Consumers Impact Evaluation....Pages 258-270
State of the art in economic evaluation methodologies and manufacturer impact modeling....Pages 271-283
Findings of EU Study on Water Heathers....Pages 284-295
Residential Air Conditioners: U.S. Experience and Possible Extensions to the Global Market....Pages 296-308
Preliminary results from the study on energy consumption in the TV on mode....Pages 309-317
Study On Miscellaneous Standby Power Consumption of Household Equipment (light - audio - white goods)....Pages 318-321
Marketing Energy Efficiency in High-Profile Markets....Pages 322-325
The GEA Consumer Information Scheme....Pages 326-331
In-House Measurements of the Electricity Consumption of Home Entertainment Appliances: the CEMEDA Collaboration....Pages 332-341
Results from the investigations on leaking electricity in the USA....Pages 342-352
Stand-by Electricity Consumption in Japanese Houses....Pages 353-363
New Efficient Lighting Technologies for the Home....Pages 364-374
New Energy Efficient Torchieres Ready For Hot Torchiere Market....Pages 375-385
Developing the Specification for a Replacement Incandescent Lamp....Pages 386-394
Building Buyer Strength for a Future Bulb....Pages 395-400
European Experiences in Initiatives concerning Energy Saving in the Lighting Field: Actions Performed by CELMA and CELMA-COMPONENTS....Pages 401-404
Market Research on the Use of Energy Saving Lamps: The DELight Project....Pages 405-411
Implementation and Evaluation of Residential Lighting Projects in Brazil....Pages 412-418
Monitoring Domestic Lighting....Pages 419-425
Evaluation of the joint DSM action “Bright North Rhine-Westphalia” for efficient residential lighting....Pages 426-435
Results from the Sacha Project....Pages 436-446
Household Electricity Consumption in the Czech Republic and Effective Ways to Influence it....Pages 447-454
Energy Consumption and Energy Efficiency for Chinese Household Appliance....Pages 455-468
Stories from Asia: Standards and Labeling Successes....Pages 469-486
Evaluating the Impact of the Australian Household Appliance Energy Efficiency Program....Pages 487-498
Energy Efficiency Standards and Labelling of Household Refrigerator-Freezers in Iran....Pages 499-510
The Next Generation of Appliances: Visions for Sustainability....Pages 511-522
Super Efficient Cooling Needs Effective Policies....Pages 523-529
Tomorrow’ s refrigerators....Pages 530-538
Last Progresses for Energy Savings for Domestic Refrigerators....Pages 539-546
The Next Generation of Energy Test Procedures....Pages 547-555
Involving Other Industries: The Role for the Detergent Manufacturers....Pages 556-557
Greening the Industry, the Evolution of Resource Efficient Products & Environmental Standards....Pages 558-570
The consumer, the New Scapegoat?....Pages 571-575
Will tomorrow’s utility supply the energy services domestic customers need?....Pages 576-585
Step one for market transformation: identify the actors....Pages 586-595
Retailers : a possible stepping stone for promoting energy efficiency in household appliances....Pages 596-605
Climate change and appliance efficiency....Pages 606-607
Conclusions and Recommendations....Pages 608-609
Closing Speech....Pages 610-611
Households: A New IT Market....Pages 612-612
New Customer/Utility Services and Communication Media....Pages 613-614
Home Electronic Systems....Pages 615-622
Leaking Electricity in the U.S.: Standby and Off-Mode Power Consumption in Consumer Electronics and Household Appliances....Pages 623-634