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SAN FRANCISCO — Estimating that televisions and their electronic accessories account for 10 percent of the electricity used in an average household, California’s energy wardens want to put new flat-panel models on a diet.
The state’s Energy Commission has proposed new efficiency standards that would require televisions sold in California to use 50 percent less energy by 2013.
The proposed rules, which the commission is expected to act on this summer, would affect televisions manufactured from January 2011 onward.
