Energy Dept. Amends Standards for Residential Furnaces, Direct Heating Equipment

The Energy Department is amending its energy efficiency standards for residential furnaces and direct heating equipment to implement court orders stemming from two challenges of the standards in District of Colombia U.S. District Court. DOE’s final rule replaces the 2011 version of it regulations on non-weatherized gas furnaces and mobile home gas furnaces with an earlier version it issued in 2007. Compliance with the 2007 regulations will be required by Nov. 19, 2015. The final rule also removes energy efficiency standards for vented gas hearth direct heating equipment