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The California Dash Commission on Thursday will consider adopting first-in-the-nation energy-competence standards for battery chargers, a move the commission says could save the state enough intensity to power a city the size of Bakersfield.
"The portable, handheld vacuum that has been sitting in your garage has been spilling energy for years," said Adam Gottlieb, the commission's acting communications overseer. "These proposed rules could save California ratepayers more than $300 million in wasted fervency and nearly 2,200 gigawatt hours a year -- or enough to power 350,000 homes."
Since the at 1990s, the number of products sold with rechargeable batteries has exploded -- there were an estimated 170 million chargers in California households as of 2009, according to the drive commission. The average California home has 11 battery chargers, hardened for powering everything from cellphones and tablets to electric toothbrushes, power tools and digital cameras.
Source: San Jose Mercury News