Check Whether Your TV Is Covered by Efficiency Management and What Its Grade Is

Is my TV covered by efficiency management?

By the agency's scope standard, it is likely to be. The agency says it applies to products sold as television sets with a built-in digital tuner, a screen diagonal of 47cm to 216cm, and a vertical resolution under 4,320. CRT, plasma (PDP), and micro LED display panel TVs are excluded.

Products sold as monitors need a separate look at the agency's guidance for the monitor category, even if they have TV functions. In the agency's system overview, television sets are a category that uses the grade 1 to 5 label, and the minimum energy performance standard applies to all 42 covered categories. This is as of October 11, 2026.

Which columns do you look at in the agency list?

Look at model name, screen diagonal length, R, and efficiency grade, in that order. The agency's TV list on October 11, 2026 had 21,380 entries in total, with the columns application number, company name, model name, screen diagonal length (cm), R (power consumption (W) per √m²), efficiency grade, previous efficiency grade, completion date, and report confirmation.

Don't search by company name alone; match the model name through the last letters. The list has the 75NU850BGNA, which differs from the 75NU850BENA only in the last letters, as a separate entry. Both show a screen diagonal of 189cm, R of 67.9, and grade 1, but they are separate rows.

Can you compare R values across different screen sizes?

R is written as power consumption (W) per √m², as its name says, so it is a column that makes it easy to read TVs of different sizes against each other. The LG 65QNED8MBEA (163cm) and 75QNED8MBEA (189cm) both have an R of 71.9, but the manufacturer's power consumption differs, at 77W and 89W. That means that when the screen gets bigger, W can go up while R stays the same.

So for candidates of different sizes, use R, and for candidates of the same size, look at R and W together. However, how R is calculated and where the grade ranges split were not on the agency pages I checked this time. In the rows I confirmed, the LG 75QNED80KRA, with a completion date of November 14, 2022, has an R of 136.7 and is grade 4, while the 75QNED8MBEA, completed on July 7, 2026, is 71.9 and grade 1. These rows have different completion dates, so don't read them as compared by the same yardstick.

How do the four LG models look in the two sources?

Read the agency values and the manufacturer values separately. In the table below, the first three columns are from the agency's TV list and the last three are from the official LG page.

I checked both the agency list and the official LG pages on October 11, 2026. The agency application numbers are 143260856 for the 65QNED8MBEA, 143260890 for the 75QNED8MBEA, 143253142 for the 75NU850BENA, and 143253126 for the 75QNED80BEA. The LG pages list the energy efficiency grade as grade 1 for all four models, the same as the agency values.

Among the 75-inch class, the 75QNED8MBEA and 75NU850BENA share the same LG size of 1,669×963×72.1mm without the stand and the same weight of 22.1kg, and the 75QNED80BEA is 1,667×962×66.8mm and 21.2kg. The refresh rate is 120Hz (VRR up to 144Hz) for the 75QNED8MBEA and 60Hz for the other two. The 75QNED80BEA has a power consumption of 89.7W, close to the 75QNED8MBEA's 89W, but its rated power consumption is higher at 245W. For candidates with similar energy figures, weigh spec differences like these and your installation spot together.

Can you work out daily use from the power consumption in W?

Only as an arithmetic example. If you assume it stays on at a steady 89W for 4 hours a day, that is 89×4=356Wh, and since 1,000Wh is 1kWh, it is 0.356kWh. It is multiplication built on an assumption, so it is not the real power while watching or a bill.

The LG page lists power consumption (W) and rated power consumption (W) separately, and within what I checked, it doesn't explain which state each value represents. This material also can't tell whether power changes with brightness settings and screen content. So in this article I used the two values only as comparison numbers and did not convert them into monthly use or savings.

Do you match the final letters of the model name and the manufacturing date on the label?

Yes, before buying, match the model name on the sales page against the product label. The agency's list notice says efficiency grade and efficiency can differ by manufacturing date because of changes to the measurement method or tightened standards. It also says that, for company reasons, a lower efficiency or grade than the reported measurement result may be written on the actual label, citing Article 15, Paragraph 1 of the Operating Rules for Energy Efficiency Management Equipment.

The list also has rows that carry both an efficiency grade and a previous efficiency grade. The Samsung UN65NU8500FXKR, completed on February 28, 2018, is shown with an efficiency grade of 4 and a previous efficiency grade of 3. This marking alone can't determine which value is on the label of a product being sold now, so confirm with the label and manufacturing date of the product on sale.

The order is this.

1. Write down the model name on the sales page through its last letters.
2. In the agency's TV list, check the screen diagonal, R, and efficiency grade of the row with the same model name.
3. Separately write down the power consumption and rated power consumption from the manufacturer's official page.
4. Match the model name and manufacturing date on the label of the product on sale (the actual product label after it arrives) against the list.