 Adoption of energy-efficient televisions for expanded off-grid electricity serviceWon Young Park and Amol A. Phadke Development Engineering, 2017, vol. 2, issue C, 107-113 Abstract: Even though they dominate the global television (TV) market, light-emitting diode backlit liquid crystal display (LED-LCD) TVs have received little attention for use with off-grid household-scale renewable energy systems, primarily because of high up-front costs. However, technological advances and price declines mean that these TVs can now provide the same level of electricity service as standard LED-LCD TVs offer but at lower total energy cost. Moreover, LED-LCD TVs are inherently direct-current (DC)-powered devices and therefore well suited for use with off-grid solar home systems. We estimate that DC-powered energy-efficient LED-LCD TVs can decrease the retail purchase price of solar home systems by about 25% by allowing use of 50% smaller photovoltaics and battery capacities than would be needed for the same energy system to power a standard LED-LCD TV. We recommend that policies such as awards, bulk procurement, incentives, and energy labels be considered to facilitate the adoption of these energy-efficient TVs in off-grid settings. Keywords: DC television; TV energy efficiency; Electricity access; Off-grid electricity service; Cost-benefit analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:deveng:v:2:y:2017:i:c:p:107-113 DOI: 10.1016/j.deveng.2017.07.002 Access Statistics for this article Development Engineering is currently edited by Paul J. GERTLER More articles in Development Engineering from Elsevier |
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