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CODES &

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REINVENTING THE APPLIANCE

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

STANDARDS PROCESS

Buildings for More than 10 years ago, Congress / Reducing the time and cost the 21st Century enacted legislation to establish energy of developing standards.

efficiency standards for residential

Buildings that are more energy- appliances. The standards have Analytical

efficient, comfortable, and already provided dramatic cost-effective / Increasing the use of outside

affordable...that's the goal reductions in energy use and in green- technical experts of DOE's Office of Building house gases. The U.S. Department

Technology, State and of Energy (DOE), however, realized / Eliminating problematic design Community Programs (BTS). that even greater reductions could options early in the process To accelerate the development be achieved sooner if delays weren't

and wide application of energy experienced while upgrading some V Conducting thorough analyses

efficiency measures, BTS: of these standards. So, the whole of impacts

process for establishing appliance * Conducts R8D on technologies standards has been reinvented. / Using transparent and robust

and concepts for energy analytical methods.

efficiency, working closely

with the building industry How has te process Interpretative

and with manufacturers of been reinvented? / Fully considering alternatives

materials, equipment, and to regulation

appliances In 1996, the DOE initiated a new, more

collaborative process for setting energy / Setting policies to guide the

* Promotes energy/money efficiency standards for appliances. selection of standards

saving opportunities to both Through extensive interviews and

builders and buyers of homes numerous public workshops, a wide / Supporting efforts to build

and commercial buildings variety of stakeholders provided consensus on standards.

many comments and recommendations

* Works with State and local on the rulemaking process, which

regulatory groups to improve were incorporated into a Process How has the Process

building codes, appliance Rule published in July 1996. Rule worked in practice? standards, and guidelines

for efficient energy use The Process Rule contains several S 1 , t Since 1996, the DOE has implemented procedural, analytical, and interpretive *pProvides support and grants many significant measures under Provides support and grants improvements for establishing the Process Rule: to States and communities standards. The most significant

for deployment of energy- improvements include: In 16,the D est / In late 1996, the DOE established efficient technologies and

practices e sProcedural aan advisory committee composed practices Procedural of manufacturers associations, / Providing for early input from states, utilities, environmental stakeholders

groups, retailers, and consumers.

The committee provides advice, / Increasing the predictability Increasin the pinformation and recommendations of the policymaking timetable

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For more information about on the appliance energy / To-improve analyses, the DOE has

the DOE Office of Building efficiency standards process. instituted:

Technology, State and Its recommendations have

Community Programs, refined analyses regarding * More scenario and probability

contact: current policymaking. analyses to deal with uncertainty

and variability. The impacts then

Energy Efficiency and / The DOE developed a process can be evaluated to see if they

Renewable Energy to prioritize the development of are acceptable over a wide

Clearinghouse (EREC) standards and test procedures. range of possible conditions.

1-800-DOE-3732 The results are published annually

www.eren.doe.gov/buildings to inform interested parties about * Four new spreadsheet models

these priorities and schedules. to make analyses more

Priorities also are used to accessible and transparent

Appliance Standards direct resources, which keeps to all stakeholders.

Home Page: policymaking on schedule. The models display the life

www.eren. doe.gov/buildings/ cycle cost, shipments,

codes-standards/index.htm A The opportunities to discuss national energy savings, and

analyses have been increased, manufacturer impact analyses.

In addition to the workshops held

For more information on after the publication of the advance * The use of marginal energy

Lighting and Appliance notice of proposed policymaking prices to better estimate the

Standards contact: and the notice of proposed impacts of standards on

rulemaking, the Department is also consumers' energy bills.

Ed Pollock convening a workshop just prior Marginal prices are specific

Phone: 202-586-9127 to the publication of the notice of to each household and

FAX: 202-586-4617 proposed rulemaking. This work- each appliance.

shop is to provide stakeholders

and interested parties with the

opportunity to comment on what What standards are

levels of revised energy efficiency currently being pursued

standards proposals they could under the Process Rule?

support from the analyses. A senior

DOE official facilitates this workshop. The DOE has undertaken the ambitious

Before the workshop, the DOE task of issuing energy efficiency

provides the results of the life cycle standards during the summer of 2000

cost, payback, national energy for fluorescent lamp ballasts, clothes

savings, manufacturer impact and washers and water heaters. These

environmental impact analyses. new standards will achieve tremendous

energy savings, as shown in the table

, The DOE has increased the below. And, under the Process Rule,

number of visits to manufacturers their issuance has successfully been

to enrich the engineering and kept on schedule.

manufacturing impact analyses.

Range of Projected Impacts

Energy Savings Environmental

Product Cumulative Emission Reductions -

to 2030 Cumulative to 2030

(Quads)* Carbon (Mt) Nox (kt)

Xt % ~ ~ Clothes Washers 0.3 - 8.4 6- 140 15 - 368

Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts 0.5 - 3.6 6 - 36 20 - 117

Printed with renewable - source Water Heaters 1.0- 9.7 17 - 90 44 -230

ink on paper containing at least

50% wastepaper, including * One quad is the approximate annual consumption of about 2.9 million people

20% post consumer waste. in the United States or one day of world energy use (1996).

July 1999

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