The most important part of a building is the door, isn’t it? It is because the door will be the way for people to enter and to leave the building. If there is no door in a building, there will be no people who are able to stay and use the building. As the conclusion, the building will just become an empty construction which makes the town looks even dirtier than before because the building is just useless.

For the door there will be some words written on the top of it. The words are usually written as Exit Sign. Do you know that the letters on top of the building’s doors are generated with some batteries and electric powers? Actually this EXIT SIGNS use too much energy which is sometimes much higher than the energy used for a home because there will be no turn off for it. That is why the government then makes a new regulation in 2006 in which all exit signs must have an input of 5 watts or less as the power demand for every single-faced product. Energy Star is one of the manufacturers which produce this product. But at 2008, EPA suspended its products in order to run the new standard regulation which the government made. It seems that some of the materials which are used to produce the products are not allowed to be used anymore in related with the issue of energy efficiency.

The company’s official website of which address is Energystar.gov has the full and brief information related with the products and the reason of suspension. The data and information are gathered in PDF file for clearer and more comfortable reading. Download the file and read all the information to find the explanation of all actions which EPA makes to this company.

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