The following report is a press release from the DoE on February 10th:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today proposed new energy-efficiency standards for refrigerators and clothes washers that will lower household energy costs and significantly reduce pollution. DOE expects the new standards, which have not been updated in over a decade, to save American consumers approximately $3.5 billion per year on their energy and water bills. These proposed rules are the Biden-Harris Administration’s latest steps in delivering savings through appliance efficiency, as directed by Congress.
With today’s proposals, we’re building on a decades-long effort with industry to ensure tomorrow’s appliances work more efficiently and save Americans money.
Over the last forty years, at the direction of Congress, DOE has worked to promote innovation, improve consumers’ options, and raise efficiency standards for household appliances without sacrificing the reliability and performance that Americans have come to expect.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm, said
Previous DOE rulemakings have substantially increased the energy efficiency of refrigerators and clothes washers while allowing manufacturers the flexibility to continuously improve their products. Today, the typical new refrigerator uses 75% less energy than its 1973 counterpart—while offering roughly 20% more storage capacity and more useful features. In that 40-year span, DOE raised the efficiency standard for refrigerators three times. Similarly, today’s clothes washers use 70% less energy than in 1990 and offer 50% more tub capacity. The new proposed rules will continue this trajectory of innovation and savings.
The products covered by these rules currently account for 5% of annual residential energy use, which amounts to 8% of residential electricity use in the United States. If adopted within DOE’s proposed timeframe, the new rules will come into effect in 2027. DOE expects the new rules to save consumers more than $60 billion over the ensuing 30 years of shipments. Households using new refrigerators and clothes washers will save an estimated $425 on their utility bill over the average life of the appliance with these standards in place, on top of the benefits Americans are experiencing from prior improvements. Over the next 30 years, the two rules are expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 233 million metric tons—an amount roughly equivalent to the combined annual emissions of 29 million homes.
Today’s proposals build on the more than 110 actions the Biden-Harris Administration took in 2022 to strengthen energy efficiency standards and save the average family at least $100 annually through lower energy bills. Collectively these energy efficiency actions will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2.4 billion metric tons, save consumers $570 billion cumulatively over 30 years, and support President Biden’s ambitious clean energy agenda to combat the climate crisis.
DOE’s Building Technologies Office implements minimum energy conservation standards for more than 60 categories of appliances and equipment. To learn more, visit the Appliance and Equipment Standards Program homepage.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Ah, “more efficient:” where have we heard this before? Obviously, just like the smart meters and electric cars, these new appliance standards (that will surely be accepted) will not save anyone any money.
All this does is give the government even more control and mitigation on what the people are doing and spending, so it can be linked to the smart meters and the social credit scores.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 22:5
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Anything the government does turns to garbage. They couldn’t sell snow boots if they were running a shop in Alaska.
Great, but what I really want is a space heater that’s just as safe, durable, and capable of heating up my room as my current space heater, yet uses a maximum of about 200 watts.
Of course there is such a thing as a wood stove, but modifying this old mobile home of mine to be able to use one safely might be a bit tricky. There is however this storm cellar my Great Grandpa built that would be easy enough to modify into a sort of winter cabin, which I could put a stove in for about the same price. All it needs is a good cleaning, some TCL on the wooden roof, (Which is above the concrete roof), and a small wood stove of course.
Standards? From these wicked people? Probably products made through slave labor, raping the environment and will malfunction quickly
How bout going back to ice boxes. Now that would save money.
These gadgets sound like the “internet of things” I’ve been hearing about from people like the Fullerton Informer. No thanks, I’d rather use a washboard. Some might remember a Mayan prophecy that said the world would end in the year 2012. Well, of course, that did not happen, but part of the prophecy said that the household “tools” that people would be using “would turn on them.” I remember telling this to a group of acquaintances and we all had a good chuckle over that one, but now, it sure makes you think those Shemites might have gotten some of it right.