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About 40% of total US energy consumption is used by household and industrial appliances, such as heating and cooling systems, refrigerators and lighting.

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Nor is it out of the ordinary for standards to compromise appliance choice ... over the last decade have been light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs, which are more efficient and can meet the standards ...

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They were initially for refrigerators, the household appliance that used the most energy ... Many federal standards, including on light bulbs, electric motors and commercial heating and cooling ...