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Powerful Priorities: Updating Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential Furnaces, Commercial Air Conditioners, and Distribution Transformers

Report Number

A043

Author Info

Steven Nadel, Andrew deLaski, Jim Kliesch, Anna Monis Shipley, Edward Osann, and Charlie Harak

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Summary

Since the enactment of the National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has had the authority and the responsibility to establish minimum energy efficiency standards for a wide variety of consumer products and commercial equipment. To date, standards have been set for eleven types of consumer products and ten types of commercial equipment. Under the law, DOE's existing standards are to be revised and strengthened to maximize energy efficiency where technically feasible and economically justified.

In each of the past three years, DOE has designated three product categories as "high priority" for the establishment of new or revised energy efficiency standards. These three product categories are

residential furnaces and boilers
commercial central air conditioning
distribution transformers

As this report seeks to demonstrate, the stakes are high in DOE's rulemaking process for these priority products.

Other Info

64 pp., September 2004

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