ENERGY STAR Update

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ENERGY STAR Update

• Peter Banwell
• U.S. EPA

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Highlights

• Outreach and Branding
• New Report on ENERGY STAR Brand (by Interbrand)
• New PSA campaign
• Products update
• New specs
• Spec Revisions
• Latest on lighting
• Mercury in CFLs an update
• Report to Congress on Datacenters / Servers
• Residential update
• Existing homes
• New homes
• Commercial / Industrial update
• Growth in performance benchmarking
• New space types
• Water and Waste Water
• Industrial work

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New Report on ENERGY STAR Brand

• Building a Powerful and Enduring Brand the
  Past, Present and Future of the ENERGY STAR
  Brand
• ENERGY STAR as a strong brand in the marketplace
• Report examines the history, evolution and
  current status of ENERGY STAR brand
• Benchmarks ENERGY STAR against other brands,
  lessons learned

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New Broad Outreach Campaign -- PSA

• New TV spot being announced today in Washington
• Highlights real people addressing global warming
  by turning to ENERGY STAR
• Campaign elements
• TV 30 second spot
• Print executions (later this summer)
• Print executions for partners to use (co-brand)
• Broad distribution
• PSA

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Campaign 2007 Something entirely new

• ENERGY STAR Change a Light Bus Tour!
• Educational bus will sweep across country coast
  to coast
• On-bus, interactive education center
• Concept predicated on national and local
  sponsorship
• National media sponsor will cover bus route

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Specification Setting Process
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2007 Specification Development

• Specification Revisions
• Commercial Solid Door Refrigerators/Freezers
• Computers
• External Power Supplies (II)
• Furnaces
• Imaging Equipment
• Programmable Thermostats
• Roof Products
• Televisions
• New Specifications
• Advanced Set-tops/DVRs
• Commercial Dishwashers
• Commercial Ice Machines
• Digital TV Adapters
• Holiday Lighting

• Proposed for Sunset
• Exit signs
• Traffic signals
• Transformers
• Asia Pacific Partnership Initiative
• Harmonization of test procedures

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Update Computers

• Tier 1 effective on July 20, 2007
• Broad Desktops, notebooks, workstations,
  desktop derived servers
• Beyond standby power Sleep, standby, idle
  performance levels
• Technology neutral based on computing
  capability
• Includes power supply requirements
• Tier 2 effective January 1, 2009
• Goal to develop benchmark and metric
• Spec revision to be initiated in Fall 2007

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Update Imaging Equipment

• Tier 1 effective now
• Beyond standby
• Technology neutral (important not to distort
  market)
• Covers copiers, digital duplicators, fax
  machines, MFDs, mailing machines, printers, and
  scanners
• New Total Electricity Consumption (TEC) test
  procedure
• Tier 2 effective April 1, 2009
• Spec revision to be initiated in Fall 2007

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Update Furnaces

• Version 2.0 effective now
• Oil furnace 83 AFUE
• Gas furnace 90 AFUE
• Tier II effective October, 2008
• 85 AFUE for oil furnaces
• Proposing 92 AFUE for gas furnaces
• CEE involved in process

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Specification Update TVs

• Beyond standby technology neutral
• Initial data collection completed
• IEC Draft On Mode test procedure well-received by
  industry
• Schedule
• Draft 1 spec -3 weeks
• July 19 stakeholder meeting Washington DC
• Target completion late 2007
• Effective fall 2008

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Specification Update STBs - DTAs

• DTAs effective now
• STB International meeting - July

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Update Commercial Dishwashers and Ice Machines

• Dishwashers energy and water limits
• Revision underway
• Significant stakeholder support for latest
  version
• Final Draft out 2 weeks -- effective October 11,
  2007

• Ice Machines energy and water limits
• Revision underway
• Air-cooled machines only
• Significant stakeholder support
• Final Draft in out 2 weeks

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Computer Datacenters and Servers

• Public law 109-431directs EPA, through the ENERGY
  STAR to look at opportunities for datacenters
  (due June 2007)
• Draft report out for comment. Key findings
• Servers and datacenters 2006 (1.5) of total US
  electricity consumption
• This has doubled since 2000 expected to almost
  double again in the next 5 years
• Energy efficiency 50 with best practices
• Draft report recommendations
• Develop ENERGY STAR whole building performance
  rating for data centers
• Develop ENERGY STAR metrics and labeling of IT
  and infrastructure equipment
• Utilities should develop and coordinate energy
  efficiency programs.

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Asia-Pacific Partnership Update on Test
Procedure Harmonization

• Focus on expanding investment and trade in
  cleaner technologies, goods, and services
• Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and
  US
• Key project Test procedure harmonization
• 4 working groups for Lighting, HVAC/R,
  Electronics, Motors
• Meetings this summer in China (Motors), Korea
  (Lighting) and US (HVAC/R and Electronics)
• Goal Arrive at harmonized test procedure for
  selected product categories

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CFLs, Mercury Recycling

• Meeting held in Washington DC on May 22, 2007
• Participants retailers, manufacturers, mfg.
  associations, EPA, DOE
• Goals
• Increased understanding and communications on
  mercury issues
• Update on recycling activities
• Update on progress for source reduction
• Regulatory issues

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
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The Conundrum

• Mercury education campaigns overall successful -
  but
• Little understanding of how to assess risk
• Over-reactions fueled by misleading information
  by media

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Source Reduction

• New NEMA voluntary limit 5 milligrams per CFL

Photo Courtesy of Monte Helm, Ph.D. Fort Lewis
College
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Source Reduction, Recent Announcements

• GE
• reduce by up to 50 percent from NEMA levels
• Osram Sylvania
• lt 4 mg end of 2007, and lt 2.5 mg by end of 2008

• Lights of America
• reduce 50, end of 2007lt 2 mg
• Philips
• 40 to 60 percent below the NEMA standard

Source www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/walmart_m
ercury.php
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Next Steps

• Get Better Data
• Three Broken CFL studies underway, Maine, NJ
  EPA, USPS
• Better communications retailers, manufacturers
  Updated cleanup instructions posted on EPAs CAL
  site
• Better disposal options Recycling proposals
  being discussed TBD
• CEE members problem is not going away,
  suggestions
• Encourage source reduction
• Communications -
• Pilot recycling with retailers, discussions with
  manufacturers (Efficiency Maine)

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ENERGY STAR Residential Programs

• ENERGY STAR Existing Homes
• Over 30,000 retrofits to date under Home
  Performance with ENERGY STAR -- Show average
  savings of 20 per household
• Long Island Power Authority, New Jersey, Maine
  and Excel Energy in Minnesota (pilot program)
  joined in 2006.
• 5 more sponsors and 20,000 more retrofits
  expected in 2007
• More than 1,200 certified contractors in 31
  states and growing
• EPA is working with Oncor and SCE on ENERGY STAR
  HVAC quality installation pilots

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Where is Home Performance with ENERGY STAR?
VT Efficiency Vermont
WI Focus on Energy
OR - Energy Trust of Oregon
NH
MN - NEC
ME Maine OEIS
NY - NYSERDA
ID ID Energy Division
MA RI NGRID, NStar, Berkshire Gas
Cheyenne, WY WY Energy Office
OH - First Energy
CA - California Building Performance Contractor
Association (CBPCA)
NY - LIPA
St Louis, MO Gateway Center
NJ - NJBPU
CO - DMEA
OH Several Utilities
Kansas City, MO MEC
Peoria, IL DCEO Tricon
NC
CO - E-Star Colorado Ft Collins Utilities
City of Bolder Colorado Springs
Established Programs Launching Programs Exploring
Programs
City of Anaheim
Atlanta Southface
Austin, TX - Austin Energy
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ENERGY STAR Residential Programs

• ENERGY STAR New Homes
• Close to 200,000 homes were constructed as ENERGY
  STAR in 2006 12 market share
• 12 states have more than 20 market penetration
• New specification in place -first quarter 2007
  shows about 11 market penetration.

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ENERGY STAR 10 Challenge Accelerates Building
Benchmarking

• Trends
• Almost 5 billion cumulative square feet of
  commercial space rated through 2006
• A 25 increase from 2005 to 2006
• Significant percentage of eligible space rated in
  key markets
• Hospitals (45) Supermarkets (31) Office
  (27) Schools, K to 12 (19) and, Hospitality
  (18)

Millions of Square Feet
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Continuous Improvement Benchmarking Becomes
Business Practice

• Trends
• In 2006, 2.2 billion square feet rated 1.5
  billion (70 percent) represents buildings being
  rebenchmarked

Millions of Square Feet
Total is not the sum of new and repeat
floorspace. It reflects unique benchmarked
floorspace.
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Building Benchmarking and Rating

• New ratings for retail buildings
• Big box retail
• Utility-based automated benchmarking
• California utilities partnering with State to
  directly transfer energy data into EPA Portfolio
  Manager -- 1,500 accounts will be used to
  benchmark over 16,000 facilities
• Model for national implementation

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Energy and Water

• ENERGY STAR Water and Wastewater Focus
• Benchmarking tools and energy efficiency best
  practice guides completed by October 2007
• Water tracking in Portfolio Manager (PM)
• Over 750 PM users tracking water use
• Joint energy and water utility meeting - Fall
  2007
• New ENERGY STAR specifications for products that
  use both energy and water
• Commercial dishwashers
• Clothes washers
• Ice Makers

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Industrial Partnerships

• Strategic Energy Management
• New outreach materials
• Teaming for Energy Management
• Benchmarking to Save Energy
• Energy Performance Indices
• Released Motor vehicle assembly, wet corn
  milling, cement, petroleum refining
• In development Pharmaceuticals, food
  processing, glass
• 20 plus industrial facilities have earned the
  ENERGY STAR