A new data visualization tool from GE and Pentagram’s Lisa Strausfeld helps home owners visualize their appliances’ energy consumption. The tool starts off with showing all the energy consuming devices in the form of a grid. The grid can be arranged in a few different ways to show how much energy a device uses in watts, dollars or gallons, or what one kilowatt hour yields for that device, or ranking each device to show at a glance and making it easier to know which device to unplug. If an appliance is Energy Star compliant, it will even show how quickly the Energy Star option pays off.
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