Newly Gifted CE Gear Need not Mean Higher Electric Bills, Says NRDC
With the holiday season “nearly in the rearview mirror,” it’s a good time for a reminder that “those electronic devices given or received need not result in higher electric bills,” said Noah Horowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense…
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Council, Tuesday in a blog post. For those who got a new TV as a holiday gift, the “good news” is that today’s sets are “much more energy efficient” than those that came out “even five years ago,” Horowitz said. But “while most of the newest smart TVs are able to boot up within 10 seconds” and only use half a watt or less of power in standby mode, “some models take a little longer and have a setting called ‘quick start’ that in some cases will use 10 watts to as much as 30 watts,” he said. Though quick start makes a smart TV boot up a little faster, “this is quite a high price to pay,” he said. “We recommend consumers disable the quick start or ‘instant on’ type function unless you absolutely can't wait a few extra seconds for your TV to power up.”