buildings themselves can be made significantly more efficient through proper insulation white roofing and smart architecture landscaping inhome products such as household appliances continue to consume comparatively large volumes of electricity their inefficiency is exacerbated in the caribbean by the prevalence of outdated equipment and a lack of strong efficiency standards for new appliances although progress is being made across the caribbean thanks to work by the caricom regional organisation for standards and quality crosq and the oas and for example with the formation of the barbados energy performance label by the barbados national standards institute bnsi