EPA Presents DIRECTV with Highest ENERGY STAR Honor - 2015 Energy Star® Partner Of The Year Sustained Excellence Award
April 06 2015 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
DIRECTV’s Sixth Consecutive ENERGY STAR
Honor and is Only TV Provider to Receive Prestigious Sustained
Excellence Award For Continued Leadership To Protect the
Environment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized
DIRECTV with a 2015 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained
Excellence Award for its outstanding leadership in protecting the
environment through superior energy efficiency achievements. An
ENERGY STAR partner since 2009, DIRECTV will be honored for its
long-term commitment to energy efficiency in Washington, D.C. on
April 20, 2015.
DIRECTV earned its EPA award for consistently delivering the
most efficient set-top boxes to its customers, educating consumers
on whole-home solutions, and developing innovative partnerships
with utility companies to upgrade older receivers to more efficient
models.
In the U.S., DIRECTV reached a major milestone last year. For
the first time since 2010, all new receivers purchased in 2014 were
ENERGY STAR certified even as the new 4.1 requirements went into
effect. DIRECTV customers have saved billions of kilowatt-hours of
electricity and hundreds of millions of dollars since 2009. The
total energy consumption of all active deployed receivers is down 8
percent since 2012.
Over the last year DIRECTV has made significant contributions to
energy efficiency, including:
- DIRECTV has maintained its strong
commitment to ENERGY STAR by deploying nearly 12 million certified
set-top boxes (receivers) with more than 65 million ENERGY STAR
certified receivers deployed since joining the program.
- DIRECTV has seen incredible market
uptake for its efficient Genie® whole-home HD DVR solution. With
the Genie, a customer’s home has one central ENERGY STAR certified
DVR (an HR44) that connects to ENERGY STAR certified Genie® Mini or
DIRECTV Ready (RVU-capable) televisions with no additional receiver
required other than the Genie. This solution reduces energy
consumption by more than 40 percent relative to the ENERGY STAR
certified three-room Whole-Home architecture DIRECTV offered just a
few years ago.
- As a Partner of the Year, DIRECTV has
continued to promote this program to our stakeholders with a Public
Service Announcement that has played almost 8,000 times on national
TV channels such as CNN, Discovery, and HGTV.
“DIRECTV stands alone among television providers in receiving
the Sustained Excellence Award,” said Romulo Pontual, executive
vice president and CTO of DIRECTV. “DIRECTV’s engineering team was
key to ensuring that all of our products met the new ENERGY STAR
4.1 requirements and it’s rewarding to see the impact we’ve made
through our hard work and unparalleled leadership in the industry.
We are proud to be recognized by the EPA for the sixth consecutive
year and will continue to improve our environmental efforts in the
years to come.”
Since its inception in 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners have
helped prevent a total of more than two billion metric tons of
greenhouse gas emissions. In 2013 alone, ENERGY STAR and its
partners provided more than $11 billion in societal benefits due to
reducing damages from climate change.
“Through their sustained participation with ENERGY STAR, DIRECTV
is helping Americans save money, save energy, and do their part to
reduce our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate
change,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “I applaud DIRECTV
for earning EPA’s highest ENERGY STAR award, the 2015 Partner of
the Year – Sustained Excellence Award, demonstrating a strong
commitment to energy efficiency and to preserving a healthy planet
for future generations.”
The 2015 Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Awards are
given to a variety of organizations to recognize their
contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through superior
energy efficiency achievements. These winners have reduced
greenhouse gas emissions by setting and achieving aggressive goals,
and employing innovative energy efficiency approaches. These awards
recognize ongoing leadership across the ENERGY STAR program,
including energy-efficient products, services, new homes, and
buildings in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors.
For a complete list of 2015 winners and information, and more
information about ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit
www.energystar.gov/awardwinners.
About DIRECTV
DIRECTV (NASDAQ: DTV) is one of the world's leading providers of
digital television entertainment services delivering a premium
video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched
programming and industry leading customer service to more than 39
million customers in the U.S. and Latin America. In the U.S.,
DIRECTV offers its over 20 million customers access to more than
195 full time HD channels and Dolby-Digital® 5.1 theater-quality
sound, access to exclusive sports programming such as NFL SUNDAY
TICKET™, Emmy-award winning technology and higher customer
satisfaction than the leading cable companies for 14 years running.
DIRECTV Latin America, through its subsidiaries and affiliated
companies in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, and
other Latin American countries, leads the pay TV category in
technology, programming and service, delivering an unrivaled
digital television experience to more than 19 million
customers. DIRECTV sports and entertainment properties include
ownership interests and management of four Regional Sports
Networks: ROOT SPORTS Rocky Mountain, Pittsburgh, Southwest and
Northwest; and has minority ownership interests in Game Show
Network. For the most up-to-date information on DIRECTV, please
visit www.directv.com.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR® is the simple choice for energy efficiency
achievements. For more than 20 years, people across America have
looked to EPA’s ENERGY STAR program for guidance on how to save
energy, save money, and protect the environment. Behind each blue
label is a product, building, or home that is independently
certified to use less energy and cause fewer of the emissions that
contribute to climate change. Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely
recognized symbol for energy efficiency in the world, helping
families and businesses save $300 billion on utility bills, while
reducing greenhouse gas emissions by two billion metric tons since
1992. Join the millions who are already making a difference at
energystar.gov.
DIRECTVJade Ekstedt, (310) 964-3429JLEkstedt@directv.comorU.S.
Environmental Protection AgencyKristinn
LeonhartLeonhart.Kristinn@epa.gov
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