Green Products - Energy Conservation in Products

We are using our GHG Factor, which represents the GHG efficiency^* improvement rate (as compared against a fiscal 2001 baseline), to measure our contribution to the prevention of global warming through our products and services. We have set GHG Factor targets within our GP Accreditation criteria, and are striving to develop energy conservation technologies for the prevention of global warming while improving our product functions.
   Based on a comparison of power consumption for 30 major products sold in fiscal2006 and fiscal2007, we estimate that we will help reduce the consumption of electricity by 3.6 billion kWh and save 78.3 billion yen in customers electricity cost over the next 10 years.

• * GHG efficiency = (Product life product function)GHG gas emissions over the entire life cycle

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• Further improvement in energy conservation performance
• Change in amount of power consumption (At Use/At standby)
• Example of a product with a high GHG Factor(Tilted-drum washer/dryer)
• Environmental Accounting / Customer economic benefit