Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 24.11.1999

Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Energy Conservation Standards for Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps

The Department of Energy publishes this Supplemental Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) to consider amending the energy conservation standards for central air conditioners and heat pumps. The purpose of this Supplemental ANOPR is to provide interested persons with an opportunity to comment on: First, the product classes that the Department is planning to analyze; Second, the analytical framework, models (e.g., the Government Regulatory Impact Model (GRIM)), and tools (e.g., a Monte Carlo sampling methodology, and life-cycle cost (LCC) and national energy savings (NES) spreadsheets) that the Department has been using in performing analyses of the impacts of energy conservation standards; Third, the results of preliminary analyses for the engineering, LCC, payback and NES contained in the Preliminary Technical Support Document (TSD): Energy Efficiency Standards for Consumer Products: Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps and summarized in this Supplemental ANOPR; and Fourth, the candidate energy conservation standard levels that the Department has developed from these analyses.