CLASP

Making Appliance Energy Efficiency the New Global Standard

Why Standards and Labeling

  • Energy efficiency standards and labels reduce the energy consumption of appliances, equipment, and lighting without compromising the services they provide to consumers.

  • Energy efficiency standards and labels are highly effective strategies for producing very large energy savings compared with business-as-usual practices.

  • Energy efficiency standards and labels offer the potential for carbon reduction, consumer savings, cost-effective energy-conservation policy, and greenhouse gas emissions abatement.

  • CLASP worked with the Ghana Energy Foundation from 2000-2002 to assist the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) and Ministry of Mines and Energy to identify products and develop standards and labels.