Warning labels on low-performing products

Creating a sustainable energy system requires commitment and firmness. A suggestion for the latter is to put warning labels on low-performing equipment and has been presented on workshops in Korea.

The idea is comparable with warning labels for alcohol and tobacco and seems to have originated in the Australian plan to lower the standby power.

When we consider that, in Europe, business associations have launched their feelings about stricter measures to maintain fair competition, there might be room for such an initiative.

It is, however, interesting that a country like Koream which produces quite a large share of the world's energy using equipment is so adamant in their attitude to reducing standby power.