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Key Takeaways What Happened: Earlier this year, the European Commission adopted a series of amendments that expanded the scope of anti-circumvention provisions to ecodesign regulations for a number of product categories. Both the European Union (EU) Ecodesign Directive and the U.S. Appliance and Equipment Standards Program prohibit using defeat devices to circumvent prescribed test procedures to misrepresent a product’s actual energy or water performance.  Who Should Care: Manufacturers, imp...

Professional refrigerated storage cabinets, blast cabinets, condensing units and process chillers. The EC also developed and implemented regulations regarding standby, network standby, and off mode power consumption. These ecodesign regulations all include energy efficiency standards in addition to other measures. To ensure compliance throughout the EU, the EC established verification procedures, and Member States are responsible for establishing mechanisms for market surveillance and enforceme...

2021 AFPM Annual Meeting Virtual Edition: Strategies for renewable diesel plant success 4/11/2021 JULIE VALENTINE, Director, Global Refining Measurement Solutions, Emerson Sustainability trends are key drivers for the expanded use of vegetable oils, used cooking oils, animal fats and other alternative feedstocks for many refineries. While this trend is taking flight in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint by reducing emissions, it is also important to enhance safety, reliability and maximiz...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) it says would "remove unnecessary obstacles" to setting appliance efficiency standards, in part by reversing changes to the "process rule" made by the Trump administration. The process rule helps determine how appliance efficiency standards are set and updated. Clean energy advocates say changes approved by President Donald Trumps DOE made the process more lengthy and complicated, and added "arbit...