Delay in Enacting New Efficiency Standards Costs Billions – New Study Released
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/delay-enacting-new-efficiency-standards-costs-billions-new-study-released/Each year’s delay in setting three new Department of Energy appliance efficiency standards costs consumers and businesses billions of dollars in higher energy bills, according to a new study by the Appliance Standards Awareness Project [ http://www.standardsasap.org/] Implementing new efficiency standards for residential furnaces and boilers, commercial air conditioners, and distribution transformers could decrease our annual energy use significantly – enough electricity to power about 330,000 typical U.S homes and natural gas to heat about 170,0
