Efficiency improvement opportunities in TVs: Implications for market transformation programs

Won Young Park, Amol Phadke, Nihar Shah and Virginie Letschert

Energy Policy, 2013, vol. 59, issue C, 361-372

Abstract: Televisions (TVs) account for a significant portion of residential electricity consumption and global TV shipments are expected to continue to increase. We assess the market trends in the energy efficiency of TVs that are likely to occur without any additional policy intervention and estimate that TV efficiency will likely improve by over 60% by 2015 with savings potential of 45 terawatt-hours [TWh] per year in 2015, compared to today’s technology. We discuss various energy-efficiency improvement options and evaluate the cost effectiveness of three of them. At least one of these options improves efficiency by at least 20% cost effectively beyond ongoing market trends. We provide insights for policies and programs that can be used to accelerate the adoption of efficient technologies to further capture global energy savings potential from TVs which we estimate to be up to 23TWh per year in 2015.

Keywords: TV energy efficiency; Cost effectiveness; Market transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.03.048

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