DOE Appliance Energy Conservation Standards

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• 2024-05-08 — Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act: House-passed Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act would let DOE drop or loosen appliance efficiency rules that raise consumer costs, save little energy/water, or reduce product availability (e.g., gas stoves), and would eliminate the mandatory six-year standards review cycle. (novelty: 3)
• 2022-07-15 — DOE Appliance and Equipment Standards Reform and Consumer Protection Act: DOE Appliance and Equipment Standards Reform and Consumer Protection Act — introduced House bill proposing to modify how DOE sets, revises, or repeals energy-efficiency standards for household appliances and consumer products; referred to committee with no further action. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-05-09 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers”.: cross-connection with doe-commercial-refrigeration-energy-standards: The commercial refrigeration CRA disapproval is one instance within the broader pattern of congressional and executive rollbacks of DOE appliance efficiency standards. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-02-25 — Homeowner Energy Freedom Act: cross-connection with homeowner-energy-freedom-act: The repealed high-efficiency electric home rebates subsidize consumer purchase of appliances (heat pumps, electric stoves, heat pump water heaters) covered by DOE appliance efficiency standards. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-02-25 — Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act: Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act (HR4626) would rework DOE standard-setting by elevating consumer cost and product availability as criteria, creating a petition process to revoke existing standards, mandating disclosure of DOE meetings with China-linked or anti-energy-use entities, and prohibiting new distribution transformer standards. (novelty: 3)

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