First Things First
The year that the ENERGY STAR program first launched
What is 1992?
The number of sprints in the history of the QPX/ProductFinder project where Kathleen has served as the Product Owner for the project
What is 200?
Has been creating, updating, and testing QPX web services for over nine years
Who is Jyothsna Yenduri?
The first specification for this product category was released in 2021 but it has only ever had two models certified to it
What is Smart Home Energy Management Systems (SHEMS)?
What is Java?
The first QPX web service to go live was for this product category
What is Geothermal Heat Pumps?
The approximate number of years it takes the ESLP team to complete 100 sprints
What is 6?
According to the ESLP Jira project, the first card to be closed was for scheduling Scrum meetings and was closed by this team member on March 25, 2011
Who is Jon Luzader?
This product category is split into two web services, Socrata datasets, and Product Finders based on whether the model is AC-Output or DC-Output
What is Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment? (or EV Chargers)
Name one method used in the ESLP project to collect price and location data from retailers for use in the Product Finder tools
What is (web scraping, API, File or FTP)?
The first government shut down to affect the operation of the QPX/Product Finder project occurred in this year
No active product category has made it specification Version 10 yet, but Televisions is the closest at this spec number
What is 9.0?
Started with the team as a .NET developer in 2011
Who is John Line?
This highly-visible group of product specifications will be sunset at the end of 2024 due to continued, market-wide energy efficiency improvements
What is Lighting? (or Lamps, or Luminaires)
What is Extensible Markup Language?
Name one of the two first two product categories to have price and location data integrated
What is Refrigerators? (or Clothes Washers)
The number of Jira cards that have been created in the history of the ESLP Jira project, rounded to the nearest thousand
What is 10,000?
Served as the team's first Subject Matter Expert from ICF
Who is Darcy Franz?
Models eligible for certification in this product category include product types specific to solar, gas, and electric fuels, but electric heat pump is the sub-type most recommended to consumers
What are water heaters?
If no utility rebates are offered for your zip code, you will still get results for this type of incentive when you search Rebate Finder (as long as you don't exclude the eligible product categories)
What are federal tax credits?
The first two official ENERGY STAR labeled products categories that products could qualify for
What are Computers and Displays?
The ENERGY STAR program overall is estimated to have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by this many metric tons over the 31-year span of the program, rounded to the nearest billion
What is 4 billion metric tons?
The founder of the ENERGY STAR program
John S. Hoffman
This Product Finder product can be filtered for Configuration options that include Conference, Corded, or Cordless
What is Telephones?
This designation based on efficiency and advanced features used to include photos or placeholder images of all listed product models
What is ENERGY STAR Most Efficient?