Xerox Redesigns Products for Lower Energy Use, Meeting Tough New EPA Energy Star Criteria

Xerox Redesigns Products for Lower Energy Use, Meeting Tough New EPA Energy Star Criteria

Over the past two years, Xerox Corporation scientists and engineers have trained their sights on developing products that use significantly less energy. The payoff: More than half of the company’s office and production product offerings meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rigorous new ENERGY STAR® requirements that went into effect on April 1.

Previously the ENERGY STAR criteria for office copiers, printers and multifunction systems measured power consumed in standby and low-power modes. The new standard asks a different question: How much energy would the device use during a typical week? It measures the energy consumed if the system mimics the tempo of a normal office, running a sample job mix with downtime for lunch, overnight and on weekends. The result is a Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC) figure that must meet the EPA’s tough new requirements in order for a product to achieve ENERGY STAR status.

Patricia Calkins, Xerox vice president, Environment, Health and Safety, said, “The EPA’s new ENERGY STAR requirements raise the bar so significantly that only 25 percent of products in the marketplace were expected to meet the new criteria. At Xerox, we knew we could do better than the industry average, and we did with more than 50 percent of our current product line passing this tough test. Over time, the standards will get even tougher. We’ll remain focused on improving our entire product line to meet these evolving requirements. And, we expect to qualify more products over time.”

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