Eaton Green Solutions
Eaton Green Solutions are products, systems or solutions that represent Eaton benchmarks for environmental performance. The green leaf symbol is our promise that the solution has been reviewed and documented as offering exceptional, industry-leading environmental benefits to customers, consumers and our communities. Though all of Eaton's products and solutions are designed to meet or exceed applicable government standards related to protecting the environment, our products with the Green Leaf designation further provide "exceptional environmental benefit."
How It Works
Eaton's Green Leaf designation is modeled upon existing global standards for environmental claims, including:
- Third party certifications and endorsements (where available)
- Analysis of potential negative attributes, trade-offs and risks
- Thorough documentation
- Higher level of customer environmental benefits
A cross-functional panel from Eaton's corporate groups and businesses review the applications and make a decision to award the Green Leaf. Ultimately, our customers and consumers provide the final - and highest - level of approval by choosing our products for superior environmental performance.
Eaton Green Solutions help our environment in diverse ways. They:
| Reduce Material Usage | |
| SF6-Free Medium Voltage Switchgear | Uses environmentally friendly choices for insulation, avoiding sulfur hexafluoride, an extremely harmful greenhouse gas |
| Integrated Facility Systems | Reduces materials and floor space needed for electrical power systems in buildings |
| Pivot Irrigation Hose | Uses 100% recycled PVC in agricultural irrigation hoses |
| Unibag Filters | Use 40-60% recycled polyester and avoid bleaching process |
| Hayflow Filters | Reduce process wastes sent to landfills and incinerators and reduce energy used in heating and cooling steps in industrial bag filtration processes |
| Reduce Electricity Usage | |
| Green Building Solutions | Monitors, controls, and reduces electricity consumption in LEED certified buildings |
| xComfort Building Automation | Reduces residential electricity use through convenient automatic lighting, shading, heating, and other building services |
| Motor Speed Control (Variable Frequency Drives) | Reduces electricity consumption and extends equipment life through fine control of HVAC fans and industrial motors |
| Power Xpert Meters | Monitor energy consumption and efficiency in real time throughout a building, allowing identification of energy-saving opportunities |
| Power Xpert Software | Manages power system at a component, device and system level and allows identification of energy saving-opportunities |
| Pow-R-Command Lighting Controls | Automatically turns lights down or off |
| Protection Station 650 and 800 | Automatically turns home computers and audiovisual devices off |
| Energy Saver Rectifier | Reduces electricity consumption in cellular base stations, customer premises equipment and road-side cabinet installations in telecommunications networks |
| LED Lighting Upgrade Kit | Reduces electricity consumption in marina lighting pedestals |
| Power Xpert 9395 Backup Power System | Reduces electricity consumption in large datacenters |
| BladeUPS | Reduces electricity consumption for blade servers, data centers, networking applications, storage devices and critical IT equipment |
| 93PM UPS System | Reduces electricity consumption in virtualized data centers and IT infrastructure, industrial automation, and other critical processes. |
| Reduce Fuel Consumption and Associated Emissions | |
| HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicle solutions) | Provides hybrid diesel-electric drivetrains for utility trucks, delivery trucks, city buses, and other commercial vehicles |
| UltraShift HV 5 and 6 Speed Transmissions | Improves fuel economy in medium duty trucks |
| Roadranger FE 75-90W Fuel Efficient Lubricant | Improves fuel economy and extends lubricant drain intervals in heavy-duty trucks |
| 5000 psi Hydraulic System for A380 | Reduces weight and fuel consumption in large aircraft |
| Enable Use of Alternative Fuel | |
| GH100 ESP Fuel Hose | Enables use of 100% biodiesel fuel in on- and off-highway vehicles |
| Improve Air Quality | |
| EH049 ESP Fuel Tubing and EH089 ESP Fuel Hose | Reduce emissions beyond EPA standards for marine outboard engines and turf care equipment |