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Amazon is amping up its sustainability efforts by launching an energy dashboard for consumers to see the energy consumption of their Echo and Alexa-compatible smart home devices. Alexa will then use this information to suggest features that can help save energy. For instance, Alexa can run a routine to turn off the lights and adjust a thermostat after 10 p.m., Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services, said during the company’s annual product launch event Thursday.
Limp also said Amazon is building new wind and solar farms to match the electricity used by Echo devices, “putting the same amount of clean energy back into the grid that’s being used by the devices themselves. We’ll expand this to match the energy consumption of all of our devices over the next several years,” he noted.
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Additionally, Amazon is adding low-power mode to its new wall-powered Echo and Fire TV devices in an effort to make them more energy efficient. It’ll also roll out a free over-the-air update that’ll bring low-power mode to devices already in customers’ homes.
