DOE Announces New Set-Top Box Efficiency Standards

New set-top box efficiency standards are expected to save more than $1B on annual consumer energy bills. On December 23, 2013, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced non-regulatory efficiency standards to improve pay-television set-top box efficiency by 10 to 45 percent by 2017.  The agreement, developed in coordination with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),…