{"id":38089,"date":"2020-03-31T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=38089"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:51:10","slug":"samsung-earns-epas-highest-honor-in-energy-star-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-earns-epas-highest-honor-in-energy-star-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Earns EPA\u2019s Highest Honor in ENERGY STAR Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is proud to announce it has received the 2020 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award<\/a> for continued leadership and superior contributions to the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program<\/a>. The award recognizes EPA partner businesses and organizations in good standing that demonstrate superior leadership, innovation, and commitment to environmental protection through energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is Samsung\u2019s 12th<\/sup> Partner of the Year recognition and 7th<\/sup> time achieving the Sustained Excellence Award for its environmental stewardship exhibited through producing energy-efficient appliances and technology as well as for engaging customers, employees and students about the value of environmental protection and energy savings. For Samsung, ENERGY STAR is also a symbol of economic development and investment in the U.S. manufacturing base.\u00a0 At the state-of-the-art facility in Newberry, SC, every washer produced is ENERGY STAR-certified. This includes innovative front load and top load machines that not only save energy but deliver time savings, increased capacity, stronger cleaning performance and stylish design.<\/p>\n

\u201cSamsung takes its responsibility to care for our communities and environment seriously and values our partnership with ENERGY STAR,\u201d said Shane Higby, Vice President for Home Appliance Product Marketing at Samsung Electronics America.<\/strong> \u201cWhile many of the company\u2019s efforts around energy efficiency are focused on manufacturing home appliances, our work also extends to product training efforts as well as investments in environmental education initiatives. Samsung remains committed to energy efficiency innovation while minimizing our environmental impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As of 2019, 33 of Samsung\u2019s products were designated by the EPA as Most Efficient. Including savings driven by ENERGY STAR certification, overall product efficiency improvements have helped our customers avoid an estimated 243 million tons of CO2 emissions through the use of Samsung products since 2009.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Samsung also won the ENERGY STAR Emerging Technology Award<\/a> for Innovative Refrigerant Systems and in 2013, Samsung won the ENERGY STAR Emerging Technology Award for Advanced Clothes Dryers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI salute the 2020 ENERGY STAR award winners,\u201d said Anne Idsal, EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.<\/strong> \u201cThese leaders demonstrate how energy efficiency drives economic competitiveness in tandem with environmental protection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The highest honor among ENERGY STAR awards is the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year\u2014Sustained Excellence Award. EPA presents the Sustained Excellence Award to partners that have already received ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for a minimum of two consecutive years and have gone above and beyond the criteria needed to qualify for recognition. Winners hail from small, family-owned businesses to Fortune 500 organizations\u2014representing energy-efficient products, services, new homes, and buildings in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors.<\/p>\n

For a complete list of 2020 winners and more information about ENERGY STAR\u2019s awards program, visit <\/em>energystar.gov\/awardwinners<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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ENERGY STAR\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state, and local organizations\u2014including more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500 companies\u2014rely on their partnership with EPA to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its thousands of partners helped American families and businesses save more than 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity and achieve over 3.5 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions. In 2018 alone, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped Americans avoid nearly $35 billion in energy costs. More background information about ENERGY STAR can be found at: energystar.gov\/about<\/a> and energystar.gov\/numbers<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is proud to announce it has received the 2020 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions to the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program. The award recognizes EPA partner businesses and organizations in good standing that demonstrate superior leadership, innovation, and commitment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29719,17570],"tags":[36,225,832,50,227,86],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-38089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-corporate-sustainability","tag-awards","tag-energy-star","tag-public-affairs","tag-sustainability","tag-sustained-excellence","tag-us-environmental-protection-agency-epa"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/31002404\/2020_partners_of_the_year_sustained_excellence_cropped.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/31002404\/2020_partners_of_the_year_sustained_excellence_cropped.png","primary_category":{"term_id":29719,"name":"Corporate","slug":"corporate","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29719,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1026,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/","term_path":"corporate"},"badge":"Press Release","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38089"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=38089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}