Sentences with phrase «of appliance efficiency standards»

In the U.S., for example, estimates of the SCC have played a key role in establishing the stringency of appliance efficiency standards, fuel economy standards, and power plant regulations.

Not exact matches

The Policy Loftness and others recommend that the federal government encourage efficiency through tax incentives and stricter standards for appliances, vehicles, and buildings to meet the goals of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

The Department of Energy's appliance efficiency standards have also driven significant technological innovations across a multitude of consumer and commercial products, with tremendous benefits to the economy.

The new study includes other strategies beyond current policies to help reach the 2025 goal: staunching methane leaks (121 million tons), reducing the use of refrigeration chemicals that are powerful greenhouse gases (67 million tons), and increasing efficiency standards for appliances and buildings (29 million tons each).

As of January 1, California retailers are prohibited from selling showerheads, toilets, faucets and appliances that do not pass new efficiency standards for reducing water use.

We have mandated new standards to increase the efficiency of lighting and appliances?

• Sets a goal to reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030 — more than half of the annual carbon pollution from the U.S. energy sector — through efficiency standards set over the course of the Administration for appliances and federal buildings;

The scoop on energy efficiency standards Federal attempts to regulate consumer appliance efficiency started with the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which established appliance efficiency targets, but did not set efficiency standards.

All the while research on energy uses and efficiency continued and efficiency of industrial processes, home heating, water heating, appliances, lighting, etc., improved, prodded in the case of household uses by thoughtful efficiency standards.

Where does Mr. Barnes stand on the role of laws that require more carbon efficiency, such as better CAFE and appliance efficiency standards as well as building and electrical codes that would create a generation of much more carbon efficient buildings?

What's more, Rosenfeld [Energy Commission member Arthur Rosenfeld, an international leader for more than three decades in finding ways to save energy by boosting the efficiency of household appliances] noted that a number of television makers already produce models that meet the proposed commission efficiency standards and that 87 % of current stock complies with the planned 2011 threshold.

Proposed actions include the development and finalization of EPA standards that set limits on carbon emissions for both new and existing power plants, improved energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and increased deployment of renewable energy.

Review of the challenges faced in measuring energy efficiency program savings and the attribution of these savings to various sources, including utility programs, building and appliance standards, and naturally occurring or market effects.

The Appliance Standards Awareness Project is dedicated to increasing awareness of and support for cost - effective appliance and equipment efficiency standards.

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.

The American Lung Association supports programs and policies to significantly reduce demand for energy by increasing the efficiency of U.S. homes and businesses, strengthening appliance standards, and reducing the energy consumption of consumer products.

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.

He funded policy research projects that led to the Green Building National Action Plan, the revision of national residential and commercial building energy standards, the revision of national green building standards, and over 40 national mandatory appliance energy efficiency standards and labels.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

Site - based regulations, such as appliance efficiency standards and measurement, can lead to higher energy resource consumption as well as higher levels of pollution.

Without intervention, a vast majority of these appliances will be bought and sold without any efficiency standard.

Today, the United States is committing to finalize over 20 efficiency standards for appliances and equipment by the end of 2016 — a commitment that will enable us to meet our goal of cutting 3 billion metric tons of carbon pollution from these measures by 2030.

At Georgetown University today, Obama stated that his administration would expand renewable energy projects on federal lands, raise energy efficiency standards on appliances, and, most importantly, limit carbon pollution from both existing and new power plants, which represent about 40 percent of the U.S.'s emissions.

The possible components of such an approach that would be relevant in the context of climate change include: a national renewable electricity standard; Federal financing for clean energy projects: energy efficiency measures (building, appliance, and industrial efficiency standards; home retrofit subsidies; and smart grid standards, subsidies, and dynamic pricing policies); and new Federal electricity ‑ transmission siting authority.

-- No credits shall be issued for electricity savings achieved as a result of compliance with a national, State, or local building, equipment, or appliance efficiency standard.

The federal government currently sets baseline efficiency standards for appliances for sale in the United States, which means that none of the products on the market are «inefficient.»

The result was a package of legislative provisions that codified consensus agreements to update certain existing appliance standards, to adopt new appliance standards, and to improve the overall functioning of DOE's efficiency standards program.

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

This report reviews the status of the federal appliance and equipment efficiency standards and summarizes the benefits of the standards for consumers and the nation.

The IEA makes clear that recent efficiency gains have come as a result of an expansion of national policies, such as energy efficiency standards for vehicles and appliances.

The good news is that policies put into place over the last three decades — including appliance efficiency standards, voluntary labeling programs like ENERGY STAR, and state energy - savings targets — have already helped offset rising demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of dollars.

This report reviews the implementation of the energy efficiency provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), including vehicle fuel economy standards, the light bulb standard, appliance and equipment standards, energy use labels, building efficiency policies, federal energy management, and efficiency programs.

121 To achieve some goals, governments are simply using mandates, such as those requiring rooftop solar water heaters on all new buildings, higher efficiency standards for cars and appliances, or a ban on the sale of incandescent light bulbs.

Strategies to achieve all cost - effective energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals include promoting the development of zero net energy buildings, increased building and appliance standards, and better enforcement of those standards.

Environmental concerns have led to new efficiency standards for domestic appliances, and smart meters may regulate our electricity usage from afar, while we are constantly told to reduce our consumption of everything and there is serious discussion about how procreation should be limited to save the planet.

In this statement Brian Williams of the UNHABITAT Chief Energy and Transport Section explains the interlinkages between urbanisation and climate change and outlines a number of measures to be taken, including stricter energy efficiency standards in fuel consumption from transport; energy efficiency in building construction and use; as well as improving global standards for appliance manufacturing and importation.

With this program Japan planned to raise efficiency standards between the late 1990s and the end of 2007 for individual appliances by anywhere from 15 to 83 percent, depending on the appliance.

92 % of Canadians surveyed agree Canada should phase in mandatory standards requiring all new buildings and appliances to deliver 50 % more energy efficiency within 10 years

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

Government can do this by imposing steadily rising efficiency standards for buildings and appliances and by stipulating that utilities generate a certain amount of electricity from renewables — like wind or solar.

So, in the case of the United States, for example, those policies that will enable the country to achieve its submitted INDC are: the Clean Power Plan (which will accelerate the shift in many states from coal to natural gas for electricity generation, as well as provide incentives in some states for renewable electricity generation); CAFE (motor vehicle fuel efficiency) standards increasing over time (as already enacted by Congress); appliance efficiency standards moving up over time (as also already enacted by Congress); California's very aggressive climate policy (AB - 32); and the northeast states» Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

California has joined fourteen other states in a lawsuit against the Department of Energy over the DOE's alleged failure to update its energy efficiency standards for household and commercial appliances.