{"id":381612,"date":"2010-03-02T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:51:51","slug":"lowes-wins-top-energy-star-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381612","title":{"rendered":"Lowes wins top Energy Star award"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who sells more Energy Star appliances than anyone?<\/p>\n

Well, we don’t know. Stores typically won’t reveal their sales figures, which they consider to be proprietary.<\/p>\n

But if Jeopardy asks, you might answer: Lowe’s. The retail home improvement chain is being honored later this month for its longtime commitment to energy efficiency, particularly for its emphasis on selling ENERGY STAR<\/a> appliances.<\/p>\n

The Fortune 50 company will be honored with the EPA’s Energy Star\u00a0 Sustained Excellence Award in Retail at a ceremony on March 18.<\/p>\n

Lowes<\/a> has been a leader in selling energy-efficient appliances for many years, and has won eight consecutive ENERGY STAR awards from 2003 to 2010, according to a company news release. The awards recognize the retailer’s efforts to educate consumers on energy use, select products that save energy and ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Sustained Excellence Award is a sort of sweepstakes ENERGY STAR\u00a0 honor, given only to companies that have won previous EPA awards.<\/div>\n
An Energy Star partner since 2001, Lowe’s\u00a0 sold enough ENERGY STAR products to save consumers more than $265 million off their energy bills compared with non-ENERGY STAR products, the company estimates.<\/div>\n
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In 2009, Lowe’s increased the number of ENERGY STAR appliances it offered, for instance, adding dishwashers until its inventory included 90 percent of the ENERGY STAR-rated models. The company increased employee training and signs on ENERGY STAR products,\u00a0 has partnered\u00a0 with many\u00a0 utility companies to host energy efficiency rebate events, and has created an online system to help utility companies simplify rebate promotions.<\/p>\n

Lowes isn’t just resting on its Whirlpools, though, the store offers “thousands of products to help consumers save energy and money,” according to a spokesman, as well as a Home Audit Tool<\/a> and tip sites for homeowners such as Lowes.com\/BuildYourSavings<\/a> and Lowes.com\/EfficientHome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, the stores are helping customers hook-up with state rebates for appliance purchases at\u00a0 Lowes.com\/CashForAppliances<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Green Right Now Reports Who sells more Energy Star appliances than anyone? Well, we don’t know. Stores typically won’t reveal their sales figures, which they consider to be proprietary. But if Jeopardy asks, you might answer: Lowe’s. The retail home improvement chain is being honored later this month for its longtime commitment to energy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}