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DOE Seeks Comments on Standards Withdrawal for Residential Furnaces and Commercial Water Heaters

November 8, 2018

Comments are due by Jan. 30, 2019.

DOE Announces $11.4M to Advance Efficient Drilling for Geothermal Energy

November 7, 2018

The awardees will focus on early-stage R&D projects exploring innovative technologies for drilling geothermal wells that show the ability to reduce non-drilling time, improve rates of penetration, and identify methods to accelerate the transfer of geothermal drilling and related technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace.

AHRI Supports DOE General Counsel Nomination

August 15, 2018

AHRI has a longstanding, close relationship with the DOE, an agency that maintains federal energy efficiency standards for many of the products and equipment manufactured by its member companies.

Setting the Standard for Sensor-Driven HVAC Control

University of Alabama looks to reduce energy usage with improved sensors

Samantha Sine

April 9, 2018

Supported by the Saving Energy Nationwide in Structures with Occupancy Recognition (SENSOR) program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)…

Simplicity, Reliability Highlight Embraco’s New Product Offerings

Embraco’s Plug N Cool introduces the industry to plug-and-play refrigeration

Herb Woerpel

February 26, 2018

Embraco is aiming to keep things simple for HVACR contractors. This is evidenced through its Plug N Cool refrigeration system as well as its FMFT Bivolt and FMX compressors.

KeepRite Focuses on Energy, the Environment, and Regulations

Ron Rajecki

February 26, 2018

At the KeepRite Refrigeration booth, the focus was squarely on energy, the environment, and the regulations related to both.

FER Standards Require Electronically Commutated Motors

Regulations likely to create a shift to electronically commutated motors

Ron Rajecki

January 29, 2018

The DOE published a final rule (79 FR 38129) prescribing the standards for residential furnace fans July 3, 2014, which stated the prescribed energy conservation standards for these products would result in significant conservation of energy and are technologically feasible and economically justified.

DOE Announces 2017 Housing Innovation Award Winners

This year's winners include 26 homes across 5 housing categories

November 30, 2017

The Department of Energy's Housing Innovation Awards recognize the nation's top builders taking housing to the next level through our Zero Energy Ready Home program

DOE Announces Five New Projects

November 6, 2017

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Energy (MOE) and the Israel Innovation Authority, announced $4.8 million for five newly selected energy projects as part of the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Energy program.

DOE Recognizes ASHRAE Certifications

Meeting the Better Buildings Workforce Guidelines

August 31, 2017

Two ASHRAE certification programs, the Building Commissioning Professional (BCxP) and Building Energy Assessment Professional (BEAP), have been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as meeting the organization’s Better Buildings Workforce Guidelines (BBWG).