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Last month, I wrote about the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) invitation to participate in the 2012-2013 Appliance Efficiency Rulemaking Request for Information (RFI) by submitting data on products that the state is considering for efficiency standards (click here to read the blog). The information submittal deadline is May 9th. The commission isn’t wasting any time [...]

…At least that’s what may soon happen to non-energy efficient products trying to enter the United States. A notice of proposed rulemaking was recently issued by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency that would establish enforcement of Department of Energy standards by preventing non-compliant products from entering the United States. The official government [...]

In the fall of 2010, I attended a weeklong conference focusing on the verification, monitoring, and enforcement (VME) of energy efficiency regulations. Over 100 agency professionals from countries including China, India, Korea, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States met in London to discuss how efficiency standards were being enforced in other [...]

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is on the hunt for the next energy-hungry products to be put on a power consumption diet. Last month, the commission held an exploratory workshop to begin identifying which products to go after. The usual suspects – utilities, manufacturers and their association leaders, NGOs, and other stakeholders – were all [...]