The Super-Efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) initiative seeks to transform the global market for efficient equipment and appliances—reducing energy consumption while simultaneously saving money for consumers.
The potential energy savings from appliance and equipment efficiency is large. SEAD analysis indicates that raising the efficiency of new sales in participating economies to that of the world's most efficient current standards and sustaining progress thereafter could, by 2030, save as much as 1,800 terawatt hours per year of electricity (as much as would be produced by 600 five-hundred megawatt power plants), 21 exajoules per year of primary energy (equivalent to the energy in three billion barrels of oil), and roughly US$150 billion per year of net energy-related expenditures. The appliance and equipment efficiency regulations SEAD partners have put in development since January 2010 alone could tap nearly 10 percent of these potential electricity savings and about 15 percent of the potential primary energy and financial savings. SEAD's partner governments are working together to maximize these savings and expand beyond them.
SEAD's partner governments are working together in voluntary activities to accomplish the following:
Further information is available on the SEAD Web site, superefficient.org.
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