DOE Proposes to Withdraw Energy Efficiency Standards
The Department of Energy is planning to withdraw or revise a number energy efficiency standards, reporting requirements and determinations that products are covered under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, according to several Federal Register notices.
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Comments on these proposals will be due to DOE by July 15, and the agency will hold a webinar on May 29.
The products covered by the proposed rules include:
- portable air cleaners
- exempt consumer external power supplies
- certain fans and blowers
- dehumidifiers (excluding whole-home dehumidifiers)
- commercial clothes washers
- battery chargers
- automatic commercial ice makers
- commercial pre-rinse spray valves
- compact residential clothes washers
- consumer furnace fans
- conventional cooking tops
- consumer external power supplies
- faucets
- microwave ovens
- residential clothes washers.