Environmental Activities - Green Products

Panasonic’s aim in all its design for environment product improvements is to improve environmental performance of each product, whilst simultaneously improving the product’s functionality.

When it comes to assessing our products’ improvements from an energy conservation perspective, we prefer to monitor performance using the closely-related indicator of climate change, or greenhouse gas efficiency(GHG). We believe that this helps stakeholders better visualise the link between products’ environmental performance and improved functionality.

Our estimates based on a comparison of power consumption for 30 main products sold in fiscal years 2006 and 2007 over 10 years show that we will have reduced power by 3.562million kWh, and electricity bills by 78.3 billion yen in that time.

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For more information on resource conservation and how we calculate it.

• Environmental Data files - Green Product Accreditation Criteria
• Environmental Data files - Criteria for Factors (as compared with fiscal 2001)
• Environmental Data files - Further improvement in energy conservation performance
• Environmental Data files - Change in amount of power consumption (At Use/At standby)

Shown below is our current performance on energy efficiency using the Energy Star latest standards.

TVs(LCD-TV and PDP-TV)

1. 99.2% of 388 main models launched from 2005 to 2007 meet the latest Energy Star requirement (ver.2.2 phase III).
2. 64% of 388 main models exceed the standby mode requirement (1W) by 50% or more.(Amounts of power consumption of these products in the standby mode are 0.5W or less.)

PCs

1. 100% of new products launched in 2007 meet the latest Energy Star requirement (ver. 4.0).
2. 30% of the products in (1) exceed OFF mode ("Wake-on-LAN" (WOL) disabled) requirements by 30%, and by 41% in Sleep (WOL disabled) mode. Product numbers are: CF-R7, CF-T7, and CF-W7.