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Residential Refrigerators, Refrigerator-Freezers, and 

Freezers Analytical Tools 

This page presents the analytical tools associated with the preliminary technical 

support document (TSD) for residential refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and 

freezers. 

Life Cycle Cost Spreadsheets 

z Product Class 3 (Excel 5.5 MB) 

z Product Class 5 (Excel 5.5 MB) 

z Product Class 7 (Excel 5.2 MB) 

z Product Class 9 (Excel 4.6 MB) 

z Product Class 10 (Excel 4.6 MB) 

z Product Class 11 (Excel 3.5 MB) 

z Product Class 18 (Excel 3.5 MB) 

National Impact Analysis Spreadsheets 

z Compact Refrigerators (Excel 1 MB) 

z Compact Refrigerator-Freezers (Excel 1.7 MB) 

z Freezers (Excel 1.5 MB) 

z Refrigerator-Freezers (Excel 3.1 MB) 

Instructions on how to use these spreadsheets can be found in the appendices to 

the preliminary TSD (PDF 5.7 MB). Download Adobe Reader. 

Design Option Analysis Spreadsheets 

Spreadsheets for All Analyzed Product Classes (.zip 702 KB) 

Energy-efficient Refrigerator Analysis Program (ERA)

z ERA for Microsoft Windows and associated files (.exe 6.2 MB) 

z Compressor mapping files for use with ERA (.zip 14 KB) 

The linked .exe file will install and run ERA for Windows. A description of the 

program and how to use it can be found in Appendix 5-B of the preliminary TSD 

(PDF 5.7 MB). 

ERA Disclaimers

This Energy-efficient Refrigerator Analysis program ("ERA") is posted for the limited 

purpose of providing full disclosure of the analysis tools used by the Department of 

Energy ("DOE") in analysis conducted for the energy conservation standard 

rulemaking for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers. ERA may not be 

distributed without express permission of the DOE. 

This material was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the 

United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor the DOE, 

nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes 

any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of 

any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its 

use would not infringe privately owned rights. 

Because this program was used by DOE in conjunction with other supporting data 

and analytical tools to perform its analysis, the ERA data do not constitute the sole 

means of reaching any conclusions associated with the analysis performed by DOE 

in determining the energy efficiency standards adopted by DOE. The ERA program 

design, as described in the Technical Support Document ("TSD"), is intended to 

provide a simulation of various technological options to support efficiency 

standards analysis and should not be considered as a predictive tool for the 

performance of a given technological option. Any use which an individual user or 

other third party makes of ERA, or any reliance on it, or decisions to be made 

based on it, are the responsibility of the individual user or such third party. 

Contact Information 

Subid Wagley

Project Manager 

202-287-1414 

EERE Information Center 

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