APPLIANCES: Whirlpool Receives 2007 Energy Star Partner Award
July 20, 2007
When selecting your new appliances, make sure are looking for the Energy Star, and one other thing to look for are those manufacturers who have received the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence.
Today in the financial earnings announcement, Whirlpool announced reception of the 2007 ENERGY STAR(R) Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This award is given to a select group of organizations that have exhibited outstanding environmental leadership year after year, while sustaining product and marketing excellence. This unique honor represents Whirlpool Corporation’s eighth consecutive ENERGY STAR Award. Other awards include:
- Seven-time ENERGY STAR Appliance Partner of the Year Award since 1998
- Designed and built first top-loading clothes washer specifically for ENERGY STAR program
- Desinged and built new dishwasher for ENERGY STAR program
- Engineered the Conquest refrigerator to exceed federal standards by 35%
- Government of Canada’s ENERGY STAR Manufacturer of the Year, 2003
- Inclusion on List of Most Socially Responsible Companies, Global Finance Magazine, January 2004
- Named the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy’s “Energy Partner of the Year” four years in a row
- U.S. Department of Energy Michael C. Thompson Award, 2003
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We bought a energy effic. whirlpool fridge. After a year and a half the compressor went. After talking with a couple of repair men in our attempt to get it fixed under warrantee I find that it appears to be more of a new norm that these new fridges break down after only a couple of years and that it is cheaper to replace them once again than to fix them. There is no way that such a fridge should ever be considered energy efficient if one has to replace them ever 3 to 5 years. They are junk and so is the designation on them.