Refrigeration consumes ridiculous amounts of energy. More energy-efficient appliances help, but we could do a lot better than that:

1. No matter how energy-star compliant, fridges consume energy in proportion to how much they have to cool the air. Our houses are warm places year round. Coastal BC on average has cooler temps outside in the shade year round, including being very close to perfect fridge temps about six months of the year. Why are our fridges inside our warm houses? Build fridges into house/apartment kitchens such that most of the appliance projects outside, with just its insulated door in the kitchen. Now you only have to cool to outside temperature. Side bonus-- no more monster fridge hogging kitchen space, just a flat door in the wall.

2. Even on the hottest days of summer, most supermarkets have to burn natural gas to keep the store warm enough for patrons. Why? Because they have acres of refrigerators with NO DOORS for customer convenience burning through enough electricity to power an entire neighborhood. Would you leave your fridge door wide open all day? To make a level playing field, simply require/provide incentives to all supermarkets to opt for doors when they upgrade equipment. Commercial refrigeration technology is going this way anyway. Bonus-- customers won't need a fur coat to visit the dairy section anymore!