U.S. Department of Energy Grants Waiver to GE Appliances for Refrigerator and Refrigerator-Freezer Test Procedures

Summary

The U.S. Department of Energy has granted a waiver to GE Appliances, allowing the company to use an alternate test procedure for its basic refrigerator and freezer models, which takes into account multiple defrost cycles when measuring energy consumption, as published in a final rule on January 25, 2012.