Appliances & Consumer Products

Clothes Washers
According to energystar.gov, the average American family washes about 300 loads of laundry a year. An ENERGY STAR-certified clothes washer can reduce energy costs by about 33% and water costs by more than 50%.

Benefits:

• Efficient motors spin clothes faster during the spin cycle to extract more water.
• More thorough rinsing and gentler operation.
• High-quality features for improved performance. 

Advanced Power Strips
Did you know vampire loads — or power consumed even when electronics are turned off — can add up to about $200 in yearly costs? Advanced power strips, primarily used for entertainment centers, prevent vampire loads by cutting power to specific outlets until you use your devices again. Several strip options are available, including timers, remote controls and infrared sensor monitoring.

BPA maintains cost-effective Advanced Power Strip measures for home entertainment centers with a BPA payment.

• Load sensing for home entertainment centers reduce energy consumption by responding to product use. 

Lighting

Lighting has many functions in day-to-day life. It brightens functional spaces, creates ambiance, and can help
improve security. Light Emitting Diodes, or LEDs, and Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs, or CFLS, have been in the market for several years — making it easier to access energy-efficient lighting choices for your home.

Benefits:

• Efficient lighting options like LEDs use about 75% less energy than an incandescent bulb.
• LEDs produce much less heat, so they are safer to operate and last at least six times longer.
• Energy-efficient bulbs produce the same amount of light while reducing the amount of energy used to illuminate your home.
• Provide a range of applications, such as reading lamps, overhead lighting, novelty lighting and landscaping. 

Energy Saver Kits

Energy Saver Kits are a collection of items such as high-efficiency lighting, advanced power strips, aerators or showerheads that can be quickly and easily installed to reduce your home electricity use. Many utilities offer Energy Saver Kits to customers who are interested in low- or no-cost solutions.

• BPA Energy Efficiency Implementation Manual
• BPA Energy Efficiency Residential Offerings Summary
  
• BPA Energy Efficiency Residential Appliances and Consumer Products Offerings and Requirements Summary
• Upcoming April 2022 Rate Period Implementation Manual Lighting changes

• Advanced Power Strips Qualified Products List 
• ENERGY STAR Clothes Washers Qualified Products List (Effective through March 2022)
• ENERGY STAR Certified Residential Clothes Washers QPL
• ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Qualified Products List (Effective April 2022)
• BPA Clothes Dryers Qualified Products List
• CEE Residential Clothes Washer Qualified Products List (Effective through March 2022)
• ENERGY STAR-Certified Electric Vehicle Chargers QPL
• ENERGY STAR-certified Light Bulbs Qualified Products List

• How to access the Energy Efficiency Marketing Portal
• Residential Marketing Toolkit

• Energy Forward Initiative (NEEA)
• NEEA Retail Products Portfolio Initiative
• Residential Sales Allocation Tool FAQ
• Retail Sales Allocation Tool
• Retail Sales Allocation Methodology Presentation (May 2012)
• Retail Sales Allocation Tool Presentation (December 2013)
• ENERGY STAR Lighting webpage
• ENERGY STAR Electric Vehicle Chargers

The Retail Sales Allocation Tool (RSAT) is a dynamic interface tool for creating transparent, accurate allocations of sales of energy-efficiency products to the utility service territory in which they were installed—without requiring end-user documentation. 

The tool uses detailed data sources that combine:

• Retailer profiles
• Information about products and stocking practices
• Seventy-two consumer profiles from Experian’s Mosaic^© customer segmentation data
• GIS to map drive times and overlay the multiple data sources with all 142 public- and investor-owned utility service territories in the Pacific Northwest.

The current output of the tool is in the form of an Excel spreadsheet (with a choice of Macros or Filters) to allow for the tool to be used by all parties without the need for additional software or Web access.

For more detailed information, read the RSAT FAQ document.

• To address utility requests for more accurate and transparent allocation percentages for the Simple Step, Smart Savings regional program 
• To identify a methodology to move appliance programs upstream and relieve utilities from the laborious practice of Appliance Incentive forms

• Residential Sales Allocation Tool FAQ
• Retail Sales Allocation Methodology Presentation (May 2012)
• Retail Sales Allocation Tool Presentation (December 2013)

In all of these cases, public utilities should contact your Energy Efficiency Representative or  ResEEprogram@bpa.gov.