Survey: Consumers Clamoring for Compatible Power Supplies

Sixty Percent Describe Status Quo in Consumer Electronics As 'Wasteful' or 'Frustrating' - Study Opens Way for Green Alternatives

A new report from Green Plug has quantified the growing consumer frustration surrounding incompatible power supplies with their consumer electronics, as well as details a green alternative for simplifying the problem.

According to research firm Synovate, the study revealed that more than 60 percent of American consumers are angry with the status quo power supply situation where most of the CE devices' power supplies are incompatible with the other devices they use on a regular basis.

Synovate and Green Plug asked 1,000 online consumers about their attitude toward purchasing consumer electronics devices, which typically come with external power supplies that don't work with any other product. According to the survey, 31 percent of respondents said they regard incompatible power supplies as "wasteful" and have many unused adaptors just lying around, while 30 percent described the situation as "frustrating" -- agreeing that forgetting to bring the right charger when leaving the house can prevent the use of an important device such as a laptop, cell phone, camera or music player.

"As our survey demonstrates so clearly, consumers want the power to be free of incompatible power supplies and adaptors," says Frank Paniagua, Jr., CEO and founder, Green Plug. "If you laid the average consumer's power cords end-to-end, you might be able to reach the nearest landfill. That's where hundreds of millions of power supplies will end up this year, as they did last year and the year before that.

Green Plug is one of the major sponsors of the Alliance for Universal Power Supplies conference, to be held at PG&E headquarters in San Francisco on June 13. For more information, visit www.allianceforuniversalpower.org.

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