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ENERGY STAR Product Specifications
One of the main goals of the ENERGY STAR program is to develop performance-based specifications that determine the most efficient products in a particular category. Products that meet these specifications earn the ENERGY STAR label.
To develop ENERGY STAR product specifications, EPA and DOE use a systematic process that relies on rigorous market, engineering, and pollution savings analyses as well as input from industry stakeholders. This process ensures that the ENERGY STAR:
- identifies products where large gains in energy efficiency and pollution reduction can be cost-effectively realized
- can play an influential role to expand the market for these products.
New Specifications in Development
EPA and DOE continually develop new ENERGY STAR specifications to expand the program to new products.
Revisions to Existing Specifications
ENERGY STAR specifications are then periodically revised to ensure relevancy under current market conditions. EPA and DOE strive to make certain that specifications differentiate the most efficient products and move the market toward more energy-saving designs.
Other Product Development Initiatives
In order to protect the integrity of the ENERGY STAR program and the label, the product development team also implements product testing and coordinates with other countries to promote international harmonization of specifications.
News
A new ENERGY STAR Version 2.1 Residential Ventilating Fan specification became effective January 15, 2009. ENERGY STAR Partners may now certify ventilating fan performance through either the Home Ventilating Institute (HVI) or the Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA), offering more flexibility to manufacturers that wish to join and qualify products as ENERGY STAR. This change will result in greater participation in the program, offering consumers a wider choice of ENERGY STAR qualified ventilating fans in the marketplace. Additional certification organizations may be added to the program upon EPA approval.
Specification Development Activities
- New Specifications in Development
- Revisions to Existing Specifications
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Winter 2009 Product Development Activities Update
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Specifications At-A-Glance (192KB)
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