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Title: Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for Personal Computer Monitors. Implications for Market Transformation Programs

Abstract

Displays account for a significant portion of electricity consumed in personal computer (PC) use, and global PC monitor shipments are expected to continue to increase. We assess the market trends in the energy efficiency of PC monitors that are likely to occur without any additional policy intervention and estimate that display efficiency will likely improve by over 40% by 2015 compared to today’s technology. We evaluate the cost effectiveness of a key technology which further improves efficiency beyond this level by at least 20% and find that its adoption is cost effective. We assess the potential for further improving efficiency taking into account the recent development of universal serial bus (USB) powered liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors and find that the current technology available and deployed in USB powered monitors has the potential to deeply reduce energy consumption by as much as 50%. We provide insights for policies and programs that can be used to accelerate the adoption of efficient technologies to capture global energy saving potential from PC monitors which we estimate to be 9.2 terawatt-hours [TWh] per year in 2015.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1213540
Report Number(s):
LBNL-5533E
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY

Citation Formats

Park, Won Young, Phadke, Amol, and Shah, Nihar. Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for Personal Computer Monitors. Implications for Market Transformation Programs. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.2172/1213540.
Park, Won Young, Phadke, Amol, & Shah, Nihar. Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for Personal Computer Monitors. Implications for Market Transformation Programs. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1213540
Park, Won Young, Phadke, Amol, and Shah, Nihar. 2012. "Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for Personal Computer Monitors. Implications for Market Transformation Programs". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1213540. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1213540.
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title = {Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for Personal Computer Monitors. Implications for Market Transformation Programs},
author = {Park, Won Young and Phadke, Amol and Shah, Nihar},
abstractNote = {Displays account for a significant portion of electricity consumed in personal computer (PC) use, and global PC monitor shipments are expected to continue to increase. We assess the market trends in the energy efficiency of PC monitors that are likely to occur without any additional policy intervention and estimate that display efficiency will likely improve by over 40% by 2015 compared to today’s technology. We evaluate the cost effectiveness of a key technology which further improves efficiency beyond this level by at least 20% and find that its adoption is cost effective. We assess the potential for further improving efficiency taking into account the recent development of universal serial bus (USB) powered liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors and find that the current technology available and deployed in USB powered monitors has the potential to deeply reduce energy consumption by as much as 50%. We provide insights for policies and programs that can be used to accelerate the adoption of efficient technologies to capture global energy saving potential from PC monitors which we estimate to be 9.2 terawatt-hours [TWh] per year in 2015.},
doi = {10.2172/1213540},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1213540}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Fri Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}