ENERGY STAR^®®—partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions that improve air quality and protect the climate.

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The ENERGY STAR program was established by EPA in 1992, under the authority of the Clean Air Act Section 103(g).

EPA ensures that ENERGY STAR provides the trusted information critical to an efficient private market—information that American businesses and consumers rely on every day. Industry shares the data that EPA uses to set performance-based definitions of leadership in energy efficiency—a collaboration that would not be possible without the confidence ENERGY STAR business partners place in EPA. Guided by a set of well-tested principles, EPA acts as an impartial arbiter of energy performance to set objective criteria that are central to all aspects of the program. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped American families and businesses save more than 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity and achieve over 3.5 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions, equivalent to the annual emissions of more than 750 million cars.

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Products that earn the ENERGY STAR label are independently certified to meet strict standards for energy efficiency set by the EPA. As technology improves and markets change, ENERGY STAR evolves to deliver additional savings. EPA is regularly updating specifications to ensure program integrity.

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