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U.S. Proposed Battery Charger Standard Moving Forward

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just published a new Federal Register notification regarding its March 2012 notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) on efficiency standards for External Power Supplies (EPS) and Battery Chargers (BC). While many stakeholders were hoping for a final decision on the proposed efficiency levels by now, the DOE’s latest notification [...]

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U.S. DoE Proposes Tightened External Power Supply Efficiency Requirements

Monday, June 11, 2012

On March 7th, the U.S. Department of Energy issued what may be this year’s most important and far-reaching Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR). The NOPR, Energy Conservation Standards for Battery Chargers and External Power Supplies, not only presents the first mandatory federal efficiency standards for battery charger systems (BCSs), it also significantly tightens and expands [...]

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California Puts Battery Chargers on an Energy Consumption Diet

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has started off 2012 all charged up and ready to reduce battery charger system (BCS) energy waste. On January 12th, the Commissioners voted to adopt limits (proposed in last December’s 15-day Language) as amendments to the Appliance Efficiency Regulations (Title 20). That makes the CEC the world’s first government agency [...]

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US DoE Moves Closer to the Finish Line – New BCS and Expanded EPS Test Standards Published

Monday, July 18, 2011

Last month, the US Department of Energy published amendments to its Battery Charger Systems (BCSs) and External Power Supplies (EPSs) test procedure. This completes an important milestone for the DoE, allowing the focus to turn to the next (and extremely important) part of the EISA2007 BCS and EPS requirement – issuing its first energy conservation [...]

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California Advances Towards BCS Efficiency Standard Finish Line

Friday, June 17, 2011

The California Energy Commission (CEC) moved a step closer to finalizing the most far-reaching mandatory efficiency standard for consumer and industrial battery charger systems (BCSs). In a public workshop held last week in Sacramento, the CEC’s Efficiency Committee gave stakeholders the opportunity to review and discuss the newly revised draft amendments to the state’s Appliance [...]

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Starting a New Year of Efficiency Watch

Thursday, April 21, 2011

The first 2011 issue of my quarterly newsletter, Efficiency Watch, has just been published. This year, staying on top of the ever-changing world of power supply energy efficiency standards promises to be more challenging than ever. As the energy efficiency meeting and conference schedule heats up, stay tuned to my blog and subscribe to Efficiency [...]

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ENERGY STAR Publishes First Draft of Battery Charger Systems Spec

Friday, March 18, 2011

Last summer, I wrote about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to begin revising its original Battery Charger Systems (BCS) efficiency program. At that time, both the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) were well along in the process of developing their own independent BCS efficiency programs. The big [...]

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