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Update on Appliance Efficiency Standards
May 22, 2012
This 25-minute video highlights some of the key findings from a report recently released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Appliance Standards Awareness Project entitled “The Efficiency Boom: Cashing In on the Savings from Appliance Standards.”
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: TAS-TB-3 | Author: Katie Elliott
A Short History of Air-Conditioner and Heat Pump Standards
November 30, 2010
How have the minimum efficiency requirements for air-cooled packaged air conditioners and heat pumps changed over time?
Content type: Ask E Source | Document ID: TAS-AskES-34 | Author: Peter Criscione
PTAC Efficiency Specifications
March 1, 2009
What are the latest U.S. Department of Energy standards for packaged terminal air conditioners and heat pumps (PTACs and PTHPs), and are there any efficiency recommendations that go above the standards?
Content type: Ask E Source | Document ID: TAS-TN-3-09c | Author: Peter Criscione
Plug-Loads Programs
Results from an E Source Roundtable Discussion
February 1, 2009
New energy-efficiency programs are emerging to short-circuit impending load growth with market transformation. Can education and incentives shape consumers’ purchase preferences or will upstream efforts affect product design before the next hot item hits retail shelves?
Content type: Focus Report | Document ID: EDRP-F-28 | Author: Gwen Farnsworth
Energy Use of Household Electronics
Taming the Wild Growth
August 1, 2008
On behalf of the California Energy Commission, researchers from Ecos Consulting, EPRI Solutions, and RLW Analytics have performed field measurements to document the use patterns, energy consumption, and load profiles for electronic devices in homes. This study, which included 50 California homes, ...
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-32 | Author: Ira Krepchin
Electronic Products
Making Battery Chargers More Efficient
August 1, 2008
Ecos Consulting and EPRI Solutions (the Electric Power Research Institute) formed a team of researchers to come up with candidate efficiency standards for battery chargers. The first step was to create an efficiency-testing procedure that all stakeholders can agree on. The project team consulted extensively ...
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-44 | Author: Dan Greenberg
What Lies Within
Improving the Efficiency of Internal Power Supplies
August 1, 2008
Researchers from Ecos Consulting and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) worked with industry leaders and other stakeholders to develop test procedures and measure the efficiency of a sampling of internal power supplies used in today's electronic products. The researchers also presented their ...
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: CEC-TB-41 | Author: John Sustar
