Trade Service, San Diego, has tagged green products in its 2.7-million item electrical database from 631 manufacturers. Any of the products in the database that bear the EnergyStar label from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can be located by a simple search.
"The EPA estimates that the Energy Star program saved about $14 billion in energy costs in 2006 alone," said Tod Moore, Trade Service’s vice president of sales and marketing. "We are pleased to broaden the visibility of this globally-recognized energy-saving program by highlighting all Energy Star items within our product and pricing database used at over 7,400 electrical distributor locations across the U.S., as well as over 20,000 contractor desktops."
Trade Service said subscribers will now be able to easily identify those compact fluorescents, ceiling fans, decorative fixtures, or other items that may be specified for projects calling for Energy Star-compliant material. Thousands of items in the Trade Service database are now tagged with the Energy Star label and this special designation will continue to be assigned, where appropriate, to new items as they are introduced to the database.