DOE Denies Industry Petition To Craft Single Furnace Efficiency Metric

The Department of Energy (DOE) is denying appliance manufacturers’ long-pending petition for officials to combine three existing performance metrics for different aspects of warm-air furnaces into a single standard, a move department officials said would have caused unlawful “backsliding” for its energy efficiency requirements. DOE published its denial of the petition in the Sept. 21 Federal Register , rejecting an October 2018 push from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) for DOE to combine three federal test procedures...