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Todd Moss, vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, recently bought a new refrigerator. It's one of the nice new refrigerators. The super-energy efficient refrigerators. The ones that come with a little yellow tag bragging about how little energy they use each year. But Moss, who's got a more global view than most, knows "energy efficient" means very different things on different continents.

"I know I live an energy-intensive lifestyle," he writes. "Americans on average use 13,395 kWh/year (IEA data for 2010), which is nearly three times what the typical South African uses and 100 times the average Nigerian. But I was still pretty shocked to see how my new single-family fridge compares with an average citizen in the six Power Africa countries."

HTML	<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/09/Electricity-consumption-Todd-Moss.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-61761" alt="Electricity consumption - Todd Moss" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/09/Electricity-consumption-Todd-Moss-800x567.png" height="413" width="584"></a></p> <p>Todd Moss, vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, recently bought a new refrigerator. It's one of the nice new refrigerators. The super-energy efficient refrigerators. The ones that come with a little yellow tag bragging about how little energy they use each year. But Moss, who's got a more global view than most, knows "energy efficient" means very different things on different continents.</p> <p>"I know I live an energy-intensive lifestyle," he <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/blog/my-fridge-versus-power-africa">writes</a>. "Americans on average use 13,395 kWh/year (<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC">IEA data for 2010</a>), which is nearly three times what the typical South African uses and 100 times the average Nigerian.  But I was still pretty shocked to see how my new single-family fridge compares with an average citizen in the six Power Africa countries."</p>

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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/09/Electricity-consumption-Todd-Moss.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-61761" alt="Electricity consumption - Todd Moss" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/09/Electricity-consumption-Todd-Moss-800x567.png" height="413" width="584"></a> Todd Moss, vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, recently bought a new refrigerator. It's one of the nice new refrigerators. The super-energy efficient refrigerators. The ones that come with a little yellow tag bragging about how little energy they use each year. But Moss, who's got a more global view than most, knows "energy efficient" means very different things on different continents. "I know I live an energy-intensive lifestyle," he <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/blog/my-fridge-versus-power-africa">writes</a>. "Americans on average use 13,395 kWh/year (<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC">IEA data for 2010</a>), which is nearly three times what the typical South African uses and 100 times the average Nigerian.  But I was still pretty shocked to see how my new single-family fridge compares with an average citizen in the six Power Africa countries."

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