DOE Finalizes Refrigerator Efficiency Standard, Floats Industrial Fans Rule

The Energy Department (DOE) is advancing a pair of energy efficiency standards that officials say could yield significant energy savings and associated carbon emissions reductions, finalizing consensus standards for refrigerators and freezers and proposing first-time requirements for industrial fans and blowers. “Together, these updated standards are also expected to reduce nearly 420 million metric tons of dangerous carbon dioxide emissions cumulatively over 30 years, which is equivalent to the combined annual emissions of nearly 53 million homes,” DOE touts in...