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Refrigerators had this kind of regulation applied to them decades ago, which is why they only use a restively necessary amount of power instead of the nightmare of waste that they used to be.

*relatively

You're using the wrong units and you're off by more than an order of magnitude. A decent large fridge will use like 500Wh/day.

This budget-brand fridge averages 17W over a year of use, and it only manages an "F" rating for energy use.

The EU regulated refrigerator power use decades ago.

https://www.beko.co.uk/tall-larder-fridge-lsp3671d-black-sil...

Our house uses about 4-5 kWh/day (excl. heating). Other than making sure we replace broken appliances with power efficient ones, we have not made any particular effort.