Minutes of meeting

Tuesday, November, 14, 2006

Attending: Whirlpool Tom Catania, Vice President, Government Affairs Sarah Bovim, Whirlpool Government Affairs

DOE: Alexander Karsner, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, David Rodgers, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Technology Development Francine Pinto, Program Counsel, Office of General Counsel

The meeting commenced at 4:15pm

1. Mr. Catania introduced himself and his colleague. Mr. Catania indicated he was originally scheduled to meet with Undersecretary David Garman, but the meeting had been delegated to Mr. Karsner. 2. Mr. Karsner inquired about Whirlpool's product line, worldwide sales, and service strategies. 3. Mr. Catania provided a snapshot of Whirlpool's products and major retail partners, including Sears, Lowes, the HomeDepot, Best Buy and others. 4. Mr. Catania indicated that Whirlpool's worldwide sales were about $20 billion. 5. Mr. Catania expressed Whirlpool's long-standing preference for National appliance
standards over State standards. a. By way of example, Mr. Catania indicated that Whirlpool was of the position that the Department should deny a petition from the State of California for pre-emption from the Department's clothes washer standards. He urged as timely as resolution as possible by the agency. b. Mr. Catania gave another example, urging the Department to support National standards in its Furnace and Boiler rulemaking. 6. Mr. Rodgers indicated that the Department's would be responding to the California petition according to our published schedule to be completed by the end of the year. 7. Mr. Rodgers indicated the comment period for the Department's Furnace and Boiler rulemaking is still open and urged Whirlpool to submit formal comments. 8. Mr. Catania extensively summarized the budding effort by stakeholders to present to the Department proposed consensus standards for a broad collection of home appliances. He indicated that stakeholders plan to hold a kickoff meeting on December 7th, 2006, likely to involve energy efficiency stakeholders and manufacturers from the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM). The event is timed to coincide with an AHAM meeting. Mr. Catania invited Mr. Karsner to speak at the December 7th event. 9. Mr. Karsner reported that he and General Counsel David Hill had previously met with AHAM and stakeholder representatives and that the Department was strongly supportive of voluntary stakeholder efforts to submit proposed consensus standards

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travel but would investigate providing a video taped speech for the event. 10. Mr. Catania described an upcoming Global Energy Forum, to be held November 17, 2007, at the DC Convention Center and invited Mr. Karsner to attend. 11. Mr. Catania indicated that Whirlpool is very concerned about appropriate application of test procedures by other manufacturers, especially for refrigerators. Mr. Catania referred to a recent Consumer Reports article on refrigerators and test procedures. He urged the Department to evaluate an AHAM proposal for proper interpretation of test procedures. 12. Mr. Rodgers reported that the Department was very concerned about the proper application of all test procedures, and that in addition, it was investigating whether the voluntary ENERGY STAR refrigerator program could adopt reforms to ensure proper test procedure application. 13. Mr. Catania expressed support for the incentives for energy efficient appliances found in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and reported that they have been very effective for promoting consumer adoption of energy efficient products.

The meeting adjourned at 4:45pm

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