Thanks. Good news, Rob. Could you send around the list of questions you are posing? 

Richard On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Robert Carmichael <robert.carmichael@navigant.com> wrote: Hi Richard,We have begun calling small manufacturers already. We have a list of questions, similar to yours below. We’ll be compil

requested (to the extent that we get quality feedback) over the next week or so.

Thanks,RobRob Carmichael | Energy | Navigant Consulting, Inc.1801 K Street NW | Suite 500 | Washington, DC 20006Office: 202.481.7393 | Fax: 202.973.2401From: Richard Parker [mailto:richardparkerdc@gmail.com] 

Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:39 AM 
To: Michael Rivest; John Cymbalsky; Andrew Delaski; Caskey, John; Dan Cohen; Robert Carmichael; Brian Coffey; Matthew 

Subject: LV Talks: Draft Informal survey of small, low-voltage manufacturers

Mike and team, As you may recall, we all agreed last Friday to send out and/or call the small manus in the low voltage space to pdiscussed in meeting generally. The plan was to draft a brief questionnaire and circulate that questionnaire internout/calling so that stakeholders could make sure their key questions are addressed. I realize everyone is stretched for time at present, so in the interests of expediting process I offer the following quless capture the kinds of things we talked about needing to find out. This draft is offered just to get the discussioauthorship and I'm sure your team can refine these questions to make them more artful, precise, relevant. Main thing is we need to get the questionnaire finalized and presented to the companies so we can get answers AI know Andrew DeLaski and John Caskey expressed an interest in getting these sorts of questions answered, so I as well with any suggested changes. If we don't need all this information, by all means let's eliminate any questioOnce the questions are settled, we need to discuss manner and timeframe for presenting them -- through written qBest, Richard Draft questions 

1. What is your total annual sales volume, and total employment? 2. What is your total annual sales of transformers? 3. What volume of sales (by $ and/or MvA) are covered products [Navigant to supply definition of what tha

4. What proportion are exempt products [Navigant to supply list of exemptions]? 5. Do you ship low-voltage transformers that exceed the current efficiency standard of 98% efficiency (in th

which are 3 phase transformers from 15-150 kVA) or 98.60% efficiency (for Design Line 8 which are 3pwhat efficiency levels do they reach and what is the volume of sales at each higher level? 
6. Do you outsource any of your cores for covered products? If so, what proportion of cores are outsourced

7. If you make your cores internally, please answer the following questions: 

o what core design do you manufacture (e.g. butt-lapped, step-lapped) o what core steels do you employ? If more than one, please indicate the percentage mix of steels. o Do you have utilize mitering techniques currently? o Do you make wound cores currently? o If hypothetically the industry were to move to a higher efficiency standard for low-voltage transfo

level (EL) (see table below) would you find it expedient to convert to mitering or wound core deswhat would the total and per unit costs of conversion be? 

Current Standard EL 1 EL 2 EL 3 EL 4 EL 5

Design Line 7 (DL7) 3ph, 15-225 kVA 98.00% 98.47% 98.60% 98.60% 98.80% 98.

Design Line 8 (DL 8) 3 ph, 225 - 1000 kVA 98.00% 98.47% 99.02% 99.25% 99.32% 99.

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