ecomagination Kitchen

GE’s ecomagination Kitchen is a suite of refrigeration, cooking, and dishwashing products that offer improved energy efficiency compared to standard kitchen products without these energy efficient features. This suite of products can help to reduce kitchen electricity use, which typically accounts for over 25% of the average US household electricity consumption, by up to 20%.

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The GE ecomagination Kitchen contains four different stylish appliances designed to work great while helping you save on electricity costs.

GE’s ENERGY STAR ® qualified refrigerators can reduce energy use by 20% versus non-qualified refrigerators.

GE’s ENERGY STAR ® qualified dishwashers can reduce energy and water use by approximately 10%, versus non-qualified dishwashers.

GE’s Double Oven Electric Ranges, consisting of one smaller and one larger oven, can reduce energy use by allowing consumers to tailor oven size to their meal.  If the smaller oven is used 50% of the time, the Double Oven Electric Ranges can reduce energy use by up to 25% compared to GE’s 5.3 cubic foot single oven.

GE’s Over the Range Microwave Ovens feature a Power Saver button that when activated can reduce energy lost during standby mode.  Using the Power Saver button between uses can reduce annual microwave energy use by over 20%.

Environmental Benefits

The suite of GE refrigeration, cooking, and dishwashing products in the ecomagination Kitchen can help to reduce kitchen electricity use by up to 20%, as compared to standard kitchen products without these energy efficient features. The 2,500,000 ecomagination kitchen products sold in 2010, including GE's ENERGY STAR ® qualified refrigerators and dishwashers and GE's Double Oven Electric Ranges, were designed to avoid over 130,000 metric tons of associated CO2 emissions on the US grid per year, equivalent to the annual CO2 emissions of over 25,000 cars on U.S. roads.

Operating Benefits

The suite of GE refrigeration, cooking, and dishwashing products in the ecomagination Kitchen can help to reduce kitchen electricity use by up to 20%. For example, a consumer who purchases GE's ENERGY STAR ® qualified refrigerator and dishwasher, GE's Double Oven Electric Range, and GE's Microwave with the Power Saver button, could save approximately $30 per year at $0.1065 per kWh, compared to standard kitchen products without these energy efficient features.