### Buildings for the 21st Century Buildings that are more energyefficient, comfortable, and affordable

. ..that's the goal of DOE's Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS)

. To accelerate the development and wide application of energy efficiency measures , BTS:

• Conducts RuD on technologies

and concepts for energy efficiency, working closely with the building industry and with manufacturers of materials, equipment, and appliances

• Promotes energy/money

saving opportunities to both builders and buyers of homes and commercial buildings

• Works with State and local

regulatory groups to improve building codes, appliance standards, and guidelines for efficient energy use

• Provides support and grants

to States and communities for deployment of energyefficient technologies and practices 

# CODES & 

# STANDARDS REINVENTING THE APPLIANCE ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS PROCESS

More than 10 years ago, Congress enacted legislation to establish energy efficiency standards for residential appliances. The standards have already provided dramatic cost-effective reductions in energy use and in greenhouse gases. The U

.S

. Department of Energy (DOE) , however, realized that even greate r reductions could be achieved sooner if delays weren't experienced whi le upgrading so me of these standards. So , the whole process for establishing appliance standards has been reinvented. 

# .4._ How has the process 

# V been reinvented? In 1996, the DOE initiated a new, more coll aborative process for setti ng en ergy efficiency standards for appliances. Through extensive interviews and numerous public workshops, a wide variety of stakeholders provided many comments and recomm endations on the rulemaking process, which were incorporated into a Process Rule published in July 1996

. The Process Rule contains several procedural, analytical , and interpretive improvements for estab lishing standards. The most significant improvem ents include: Procedural ./ Providing for early input from stakeholders ./ Increasing the predictabil ity of the policymaking timetable ./ Reducing the time and cost of developing standards. Analytical ./ Increasing the use of outside technical experts ./ Eliminating problematic design options early in the process ./ Conducting thorough analyses of impacts ./ Using transparent and robust analytical methods. Interpretative ./ Fully considering alternatives to regulation ./ Setting policies to guide the selection of standards ./ Supporting efforts to build consensus on standards. 

# .4._ How has the Process 

# V Rule worked in practice?
Since 1996, the DOE has implemented many significant measures under the Process Rule : ./ In late 1996, the DOE established an advisory committee composed of manufacturers associations, states , utilities , environmental groups , retailers , and consumers
. The committee provides advice , information and recommendations

OFFICE OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

. STATE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY • U

. S

. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGYFor more information about the DOE Office ofBuilding Technology, State and Community Programs, contact: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (EREC) 1-800-DOE-3732 www
.eren
.doe

.gov / buildings
Appliance Standards Home Page: www
.eren.doe.gov/buildings! codes-standards/index. htm

For more information on Lighting andAppliance Standards contact: Ed Pollock Phone: 202-586-9127 FAX: 202-586-4617

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. July 1999 DOE/G0-10099-824 on the appliance energy efficiency standards process
. Its recommendations have refined analyses regarding current policymaking

. ./ The DOE developed a process to prioritize the development of standards and test procedures

. The results are published annually to inform interested parties about these priorities and schedules

. Priorities also are used to direct resources , which keeps policymaking on schedule

. ./ The opportunities to discuss analyses have been increased. In addition to the workshops held after the publication of the advance notice of proposed policymaking and the notice of proposed rulemaking , the Department is also convening a workshop just prior to the publication of the notice of proposed ru lemaking

. This workshop is to provide stakeholders and interested parties with the opportunity to comment on what levels of revised energy efficiency standards proposals they could support from the analyses. A senior DOE official facilitates this workshop. Before the workshop , the DOE provides the results of the life cycle cost, payback, national energy savings, manufacturer impact and environmental impact analyses. ./ The DOE has increased the number of visits to manufacturers to enrich the engineering and manufacturing impact analyses. ./ To improve analyses , the DOE has instituted :

• More scenario and probability

analyses to deal with uncertainty and variability. The impacts then can be evaluated to see if they are acceptable over a wide range of possible conditions.

• Four new spreadsheet models

to make analyses more accessible and transparent to all stakeholders. The models display the life cycle cost, shipments, national energy savings , and manufacturer impact analyses

.

• The use of marginal energy

prices to better estimate the impacts of standards on consumers' energy bills

. Marginal prices are specific to each household and each appliance. 

## What standards are currently being pursued under the Process Rule? The DOE has undertaken the ambitious task of issuing energy efficiency standards during the summer of 2000 for fluorescent lamp ballasts , clothes washers and water heaters. These new standards will achieve tremendous energy savings, as shown in the table below

. And, under the Process Rule , their issuance has successfully been kept on schedule

.


## Range ofProjected Impacts Energy Savings Environmental Product Cumulative Emission Reductions
- to 2030 Cumulative to 2030 (Quads}* Carbon (Mt) Nox (kt) Clothes Washers 0.3

- 8.4 6-140 15- 368 Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts 0.5

- 3.6 6-36 20

- 117 Water Heaters 1.0-9.7 17- 90 44

- 230 

### * One quad is the approximate annual consumption ofabout2

.9 million people

in the United States or one day of world energy use (1996).