A new California exclusive: limits on TV sales

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The California Energy Commission unanimously approved a proposed regulation today capping the power consumption of televisions sold in California, starting in 2011. The Opinion L.A. blog has a wordier rundown of the potential winners and losers; I’ll just note here that the rules won’t have any impact on the models in stores now, and probably not on the ones that hit the shelves next year, either. That’s because it takes more than a year to design and engineer the typical set. Oh and yes, judging from the saber-rattling by the Consumer Electronics Assn. this afternoon, I expect that the rules will be challenged in court long before they take effect.

-- Jon Healey

Healey writes editorials for The Times’ Opinion Manufacturing Division. Follow him on Twitter: @jcahealey