Energy Policy Act Includes National Efficiency Levels
The terms of the agreements, enacted into law through the energy bill, involves national minimum efficiency standards that will be effective on Jan. 1, 2010.
The law sets new, more stringent minimum-efficiency standards for packaged air conditioners and heat pumps (from 65,000- up to 240,000-Btuh cooling capacity) that are used in many commercial buildings, a 26 percent improvement.