ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

ADL Arthur D. Little, Inc.

AEO Annual Energy Outlook

AHAM Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ANOPR Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

ARI Air­Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute

ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air­Conditioning

Engineers

BLAST Building Loads Analysis System Thermodynamics

BOM Bill of Materials

BT Building Technologies

CBECS Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey

CDEC Calculated Daily Energy Consumption

CEC California Energy Commission, Compressor Energy Consumption

CEE Consortium for Energy Efficiency

CIR Current Industrial Report

CMER Consumer Marginal Energy Rates

CPUC California Public Utilities Commission

COGS Cost of Goods Sold

CFC Chlorofluorocarbon

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CIP Conservation Improvement Program

CRE Commercial Refrigeration Equipment

CRMD Commercial Refrigerator Manufacturers Division (ARI)

CSA Canadian Standards Association

DOE Department of Energy

EER Energy Efficiency Ratio

EEV Electronic Expansion Valve

EIA Energy Information Administration

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPACT 2005 Energy Policy Act of 2005

EPCA Energy Policy and Conservation Act

ERP Equity Risk Premium

EUI Energy Use Intensity

FEMP Federal Energy Management Program

FMI Food Marketing Institute

FR Federal Register

G&A General and Administrative

GRIM Government Regulatory Impact Model

HVAC Heating, Ventilating and Air­Conditioning

HCFC Hydrochlorofluorocarbon

IAT Integrated Average Temperature

IMBUILD Impact of Building Energy Efficiency Programs

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IMPLAN Impact Analysis for Planning

IPCC International Panel on Climate Change

LCC Life­Cycle Cost

LED Light­Emitting Diode

MEPS Minimum Energy Performance Standards

MIA Manufacturer Impact Analysis

MPC Manufacturer Production Cost

MSP Manufacturer Selling Price

MTA Market and Technology Assessment

NAICS North American Industry Classification System

NEMS National Energy Modeling System

NES National Energy Savings

NIA National Impacts Analysis

NOPR Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

NPV Net Present Value

NRCan Natural Resources Canada

NYSERDA New York State Energy Research and Development Administration

OMB Office of Management and Budget

PBA Principal Building Activities

PBP Payback Period

PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric

PPI Producer Price Index

PSC Permanent Split Capacitor

R&D Research and Development

SBA Small Business Administration

SCE Southern California Edison

SCT Saturated Condenser Temperature

SDG&E San Diego Gas and Electric

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission

SEDS State Energy Consumption, Price, and Expenditure Estimates

SET Saturated Evaporator Temperature

TDA Total Display Area

TEC Total Energy Consumption

TMY Typical Meteorological Year

TSD Technical Support Document

TXV Thermostatic Expansion Valve

U.S.C. United States Code

WACC Weighted Average Cost of Capital

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EQUIPMENT CLASS DESIGNATIONS FOR COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION

EQUIPMENT

Equipment Families

VOP Vertical without Doors

SVO Semi­Vertical without Doors

HZO Horizontal without Doors

SOC Service Over Counter

VCT Vertical with Transparent Doors

HCT Horizontal with Transparent Doors

VCS Vertical with Solid Doors

HCS Horizontal with Solid Doors

Condensing Unit Configuration

RC Remote Condensing Unit

SC Self­Contained Condensing Unit

Rating Temperature

M Refrigerator (“Medium Temperature”), 38 °F

L Freezer (“Low Temperature”), 0 °F

I Ice­Cream Freezer (“Ice­Cream Temperature”), ­15 °F

Equipment classes are defined as a combination of a equipment family, condensing unit

configuration and rating temperature. For example, “VOP.RC.M” is a vertical display

refrigeration case without doors using a remote condensing unit for medium temperature

applications.

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