Sentences with phrase «minimum efficiency standards»

EPA and DOE work closely to share data and analyses, synchronize timing, and coordinate requests to industry in the development of both the voluntary ENERGY STAR specifications and the DOE minimum efficiency standards.

DOE also sets minimum efficiency standards for some products through a regulatory process.

Heat pumps are going through a period of innovation including more wide - spread availability of ductless heat pumps, development of cold climate heat pumps, higher minimum efficiency standards for heat pumps, and development of gas - fired heat pumps.

Minimum efficiency standards for residential appliances and lighting have been one of the most successful policies used by states and the federal...

Minimum efficiency standards for residential appliances and lighting have been one of the most successful policies used by states and the federal government to save energy.

In addition, the Senate bill adopted consensus minimum efficiency standards on residential air conditioners, furnaces and heat pumps, pole - mounted outdoor lights (e.g., street lights), drinking water dispensers, hot food holding cabinets (used to serve food in hospitals), and hot tubs.

Minimum efficiency standards for commercial equipment have been one of the most successful policies used by states and the federal government to save energy.

Appliance efficiency standards: The National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987 established minimum efficiency standards for major home appliances, including furnaces, central and room air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, dishwashers, and heat pumps.

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At a minimum, the conflict will determine whether the state or the administration ends up setting the defacto national 2025 fuel efficiency standard.

This summer the administration delayed a federal rule set to take effect in July, that increased the penalty for automakers who built vehicles that did not meet minimum fuel efficiency standards.

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

The mayor's plan also calls for the city to pass an «audit and retrofit bill» that would require buildings with more than 50,000 square feet of floor space to undergo energy audits every 10 years, with mandatory fixes to be made if audits find that buildings do not comply with minimum energy efficiency standards.

EnergyStar: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) award EnergyStar labels to products that exceed minimum national efficiency standards.

One result of this research will be California standards on air handler minimum - efficiency levels.

Webinar panelists reviewed the various policy measures implemented in the transport sector (such as minimum energy performance standards, labels and promotion of modal shifts) within the European Union and in G20 countries, and they related them to energy demand growth and energy efficiency improvements.

A report on decarbonising heat from the UK Association for the Conservation of Energy says government «must bite the bullet» by setting mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards for all buildings, at the point of sale.

-- The Secretary of Agriculture may, by regulation, provide for the applicability of the energy efficiency standards under subsection (a) or the enhanced energy efficiency and conservation standards and green building standards under subsection (b), or both, with respect to any covered federally assisted housing described in paragraph (3)(B) or any assistance provided with respect to rural housing by the Rural Housing Service of the Department of Agriculture, subject to minimum Federal codes or standards then in effect.

-- The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, by regulation, provide for the applicability of the energy efficiency standards under subsection (a) or the enhanced energy efficiency and conservation standards and green building standards under subsection (b), or both, with respect to any covered federally assisted housing described in paragraph (3)(A) or any HUD assistance, subject to minimum Federal codes or standards then in effect.

While the ZERO Code incorporates the latest ASHRAE Standard 90.1 - 2016 requirements for minimum building efficiency, other existing or new prescriptive and performance standards can also be accommodated, such as the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), ASHRAE Standard 189.1 - 2017, or any building energy efficiency standards that are more stringent than ASHRAE Standard 90.1 - 2016.

The energy code is a building standard that ensures permitted construction in New York State meets a minimum level of energy efficiency.

The New York State energy code is a minimum building standard for energy efficiency.

Most Africa countries consider the introduction of safety and energy efficiency standards a matter of urgency, but progress to create minimum energy performance rules, standards and classifications has been slow.

Then in 2007, the Construction Industry Federation warned that plans to boost minimum energy efficiency standards by 40 % would add $ 15,000 to the price of new homes.

Just one complied with energy efficiency rules in full, almost half failed to meet the rules for heat producing appliances, and over 40 % failed to minimum ventilation standards.

ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators are about 9 percent more energy efficient than models that meet the federal minimum energy efficiency standard.

The Energy Conservation Construction Code of New York State is a minimum building standard for energy efficiency.

ENERGY STAR certified refrigerators are about 9 percent more energy efficient than models that meet the federal minimum standard for energy efficiency.

Building energy codes are regulatory instruments that specify minimum energy efficiency standards for the residential and commercial building sectors.

• Government failure to provide a comprehensive and costed plan of action for meeting its targets; • Government failure to set a minimum standard of energy efficiency to be applied to affected households; • Repeated criticism of the Government from the independent Fuel Poverty Advisory Group; • That the Government itself has admitted that targets to reduce and eventually eliminate fuel poverty will be missed.

And since developers will almost always build to the minimum building code standard that they can get away with, any increases in efficiency and reductions in glass area will have to be through regulation, and the pushback from the developers will be that it increases the cost of housing and will kill the industry.

ENERGY STAR certified dishwashers are 12 % more efficient than non-certified models and are more efficient than models that simply meet the federal minimum standard for energy efficiency.

Three House Republicans, Joe Barton and Michael Burgess of Texas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, have introduced the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, which would repeal the section of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that sets minimum energy efficiency standards for light bulbs and would effectively phase out most ordinary incandescents.

These standards include minimum levels of operating efficiency, and other cost - effective measures, to promote the use of energy - and water - efficient appliances.

Clothes washers that have earned the ENERGY STAR are about 25 % more efficient than non-certified models and are more efficient than models that simply meet the federal minimum standard for energy efficiency.

These relate minimum energy efficiency standards and affect commercial property as well as residential property.

In this edition we discuss the latest government guidance on forthcoming Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard, a new suite of NEC construction contracts and squatters and «registration gaps».

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