POINTS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUYING A FRIDGE Look for the ENERGY STAR. ENERGY STAR is the simple choice for saving energy. Saving money and helping to protect the climate. After heating, cooling, and hot water. The refrigerator is probably the next largest energy user in your home. Thanks to recent improvements in insulation and compressors. Today’s refrigerators use much less energy than older models. In fact, a 15 year old refrigerator uses 33% more energy as a new ENERGY STAR certified model. You could save more than R3000 and reduce your carbon footprint by 4,900 pounds of CO2 over the 12-year lifetime of the product. Consider a Refrigerator with a Top-Mounted Freezer Refrigerators are sold in many configurations including top freezer, bottom freezer, and side-by-side. Your new refrigerator doesn’t have to be the same configuration you had before, so long as you account for proper sizing as discussed below. A top-freezer refrigerator that has earned the ENERGY STAR uses less energy than a 60-watt light bulb. Top freezer models tend to use the least energy of all refrigerator configurations and are affordably priced. On average, an ENERGY STAR certified top freezer refrigerator costs about R750 a year to run, while…
POINTS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUYING A FRIDGE Look for the ENERGY STAR. ENERGY STAR is the simple choice for saving energy. Saving money and helping to protect the climate. After heating, cooling, and hot water. The refrigerator is probably the next largest energy user in your home. Thanks to recent improvements in insulation and compressors. Today’s refrigerators use much less energy than older models. In fact, a 15 year old refrigerator uses 33% more energy as a new ENERGY STAR certified model. You could save more than R3000 and reduce your carbon footprint by 4,900 pounds of CO2 over the 12-year lifetime of the product. Consider a Refrigerator with a Top-Mounted Freezer Refrigerators are sold in many configurations including top freezer, bottom freezer, and side-by-side. Your new refrigerator doesn’t have to be the same configuration you had before, so long as you account for proper sizing as discussed below. A top-freezer refrigerator that has earned the ENERGY STAR uses less energy than a 60-watt light bulb. Top freezer models tend to use the least energy of all refrigerator configurations and are affordably priced. On average, an ENERGY STAR certified top freezer refrigerator costs about R750 a year to run, while…
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