Sharp energy efficient products

• LCD TVs
• Solar modules
• Document solutions
• Home cinema systems
• Home appliances

LCD TVs

Sharp UK is registered with the Energy Saving Trust and a number of its most recent models have been awarded the Energy Saving Recommended logo. Sharp also remains the only consumer electronics manufacturer to be awarded the Euro Flower logo by the European Commission.

The shift towards digital broadcasting continues to advance around the world, and outstanding features such as thin profile, high-resolution image display, and low power consumption make LCD TVs attractive both as primary televisions in living rooms and as personal TVs in private spaces.

In August 2007 Sharp announced a breakthrough in LCD technology that brought together Sharp's unique one-of-a-kind LCD technologies to achieve high image quality, super-thin profile and advanced environmental performance. A design with a thickness of only 20mm (main display section; 29 mm at the thickest part), contrast ratio of 100,000:1, and power consumption of only 140 kWh/year in a 50-inch class LCD TV.

Solar modules

Sharp is the world’s largest manufacturer of photovoltaic (electricity) cells. Solar power is becoming indispensable to future generations as a renewable and sustainable source of clean energy.

The pioneering production of solar cells began at Sharp in1959. Today some 100,000 of our solar systems are providing power in countries around the world. Production of solar systems in Japan has now reached a quantity equivalent to an output of 436MW.  This translates into a saving of 187 tonnes of CO2, helping to reduce the impact of global warming. 

In the UK Sharp began producing solar modules for the European market in 2004 at its manufacturing plant in Wrexham. This production site has become one of the company’s most technically advanced sites and today has an annual production capacity of 220MW for mono and polycrystalline photovoltaic solar cells.

Please visit www.sharp.co.uk/page/solar for further information about the benefits of a solar installation for your home or business.

Document solutions

Our range of document solutions is registered to the Energy Star and Nordic Swan schemes.

Sharp is continually investing in its R&D and core technologies to create environmentally conscious products. In particular Sharp has focussed on reducing power consumption of our range of MFP products. Current Sharp products offer a high-energy efficiency, e.g. less than 1W in sleep mode. 

New technologies in reducing toner consumption, long life photoconductors and a range of other features designed to save energy show the progress Sharp has made to minimise the effect of its products on the environment.

• Sharp Mycrostoner: dramatically lowers power consumption, compared to other toners, thanks to a cartridge that is one fifth the size of conventional cartridges. This also leads to a reduction in the packaging required.
• Sharp’s photoconductor drum unit has an extended service life of up to one million prints.

Home cinema systems

Sharp audio systems consume a mere 0.6W in standby mode. We recommend however that any appliance should be completely switched off to ensure zero power consumption when not in use for long periods of time.

Home appliances

Sharp manufactures a wide range of domestic and commercial microwave ovens. 

The microwave oven is one of the twentieth century's great inventions and can be found in most homes. It is popular for two main reasons: it cooks food much quicker than a conventional oven and, because it only heats food and nothing else, it uses electricity very efficiently.  It is therefore better from an environmental point of view as it generates less CO2 emissions than a conventional oven.

Microwave ovens generate radio waves at a frequency of 2,500MHz (2.5 GHz). The radio waves in this frequency range have an important property whereby they are absorbed by water, fats and sugars. When they are absorbed they are converted directly into heat by causing the molecules of the water and fat contents to vibrate, which in turn cause friction and thus cooking of the food takes place.

In a conventional oven heat has to migrate, via conduction, from the air inside the oven through the food being cooked. This process takes longer and hence consumes more energy than cooking by microwave.