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Star Rating launched to check charger energy consumption

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ November 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson have joined together to launch a common energy rating system for phone chargers. The reason is to form a guideline for consumers to compare and choose chargers that save the most energy.

The rating system only covers the companies above and shows how much energy a charger actually consumes when plugged into the wall: 5 stars is most efficient chargers and 0 stars for most enery consuming chargers.If you have a device by LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung Electronics or Sony Ericsson here is a link to their site where you can check your charger:

http://www.lge.com/about/sustainability/climate_energystar.jsp#battery
www.motorola.com/environment/chargers
www.nokia.com/chargerenergy
http://uk.samsungmobile.com/greenmanagement/energy.do
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/corporate/company/sustainability/energy
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