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FTC
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FTC website explaining the usefulness of the EnergyGuide label when shopping for home appliances.
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DOE
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Website highlighting the DOE Building Technologies Office Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Initiative, including technical reports, other publications, resources, and presentations.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA,
ENERGY STAR
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Description
ENERGY STAR clothes washers key product criteria eligibility and energy performance metrics.
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ENERGY STAR
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Description
ENERGY STAR criteria that requires clothes dryers meet this set of efficiency and cycle time requirements using eligibility and energy performance metrics.
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EPA,
WaterSense
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Website providing a searchable list of products that meet the EPA WaterSense criteria for water savings.
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FEMA
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Guide provides homeowners ways to prepare for an earthquake and protect a home against earthquake damage.
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Newport Partners
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Report detailing the value of a smart range hood (SRH) that was developed as part of a project aimed at addressing indoor air quality (IAQ) health risks by targeting key pollutants in residential kitchens, with a focus on being consumer-friendly, quiet, effective, and efficient, meeting established...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission,
CPSC
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Description
Report containing data on injuries and fatalities associated with television, furniture, and appliance product instability, or tip-over incidents.
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EIA
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Federal statistics about national energy consumption in residential homes in 2020
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USGBC
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Website describing the RELi rating system and leadership standard that takes a holistic approach to resilient design.
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U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Description
Report evaluating HVAC building technologies based on their ability to provide grid services and the type of value provided, including efficiency, load shed, load shift, and modulation.
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U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Description
Report evaluating lighting and electronic building technologies based on their ability to provide grid services and the type of value provided, including efficiency, load shed, load shift, and modulation.
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U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Description
Report providing an introduction to core concepts of GEBs, and explaining how flexible building loads can be integrated and controlled to benefit consumers, the grid, and society more broadly.
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U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Description
Report addressing the current state of these technologies and the challenges of adapting these to the GEB context.
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U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Description
Report focuseing on dynamic window and opaque envelope technologies for GEBs, including electrochromic glazing, automated attachments, and thermal storage.
Organization(s)
AnnDyl Policy Group,
National Association of State Energy Officials,
NASEO
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Description
Report identifying efficient, connected, smart, and flexible GEB technologies and their future potential, including barriers and opportunities, recommendations for policymakers, and research needs.
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DOE
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Description
Fact sheet defining a grid-interactive efficient building and its benefits.
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International Association of Certified Home Inspectors,
InterNACHI
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Description
Article describing the correct installation of clothes dryer exhaust ducts.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA
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Description
Table of criteria for pool pumps to achieve ENERGY STAR certification.
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Consumer Reports
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Description
Article describing the danger of furniture tip-overs
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DOE
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Description
Website from the U.S. Department of Energy providing consumers with information on saving energy and using renewable energy technologies.
Organization(s)
NFPA
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Description
Information sheet with safety tips for home owners on proper maintenance of clothes dryers.
Organization(s)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA,
ENERGY STAR
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Description
ENERGY STAR clothes dryer buying guidance for consumers.
Organization(s)
DOE
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Description
DOE's consumer information about energy and laundry.
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FDA
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Description
When it comes to protecting yourself and your family from foodborne illness, one of your most effective tools is the kitchen refrigerator.
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ICC
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Description
2009 edition of code establishing a baseline for the design and installation of fuel gas systems and gas fired appliances through performance requirements.
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NorthernSTAR Building America Partnership,
NorthernSTAR,
University of Minnesota,
UMIN
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Description
This project analyzed combined condensing water heaters or boilers and hydronic air coils to provide high efficiency domestic hot water (DHW) and forced air space heating. Called "combi" systems, they provided similar space and water heating performance less expensively than installing two...
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EPA
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Description
Factsheet with information on energy efficient pool pumps.
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Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC
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Repor ourlining testing results from a 53 home monitored sample, long-term energy use of electric resistance clothes dryers.
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New York Times
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Installation tips and product suggestions for mounting hardware.
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California Energy Commission,
CEC
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Description
This report discusses proposed updates to the pool pumps and motors, and portable electric spas standards in the Appliance Efficiency Regulations (California Code of Regulations, Title 20, Sections 1601 to 1609). These proposed updates are part of the 2012 Appliance Efficiency Rulemaking, Phase I...
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ABAG
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Description
A basic guide walking through the various types of valves useful in mitigating the effects of earthquakes and other seismic events on natural gas pipelines for residential use.
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BPI
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Description
Fact sheet that details the steps needed to perform a combustion appliance safety inspection to determine if fossil fuel-fired appliances are operating safely under a depressurized condition.
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ICC
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Description
2015 edition of code establishing a baseline for the design and installation of fuel gas systems and gas fired appliances through performance requirements.
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Washington State Department of Ecology
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Description
Webpage describing burn bans, which wood burning devices are legal in Washington, why wood smoke is harmful to health, and how to reduce the smoke from your wood burning device.
Organization(s)
Green Building Advisor,
GBA
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Description
Blog post about heat pump clothes dryers.
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IAPMO
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Description
Code set from IAPMO explaining plumbing standards. 2015 publication.
Organization(s)
Building America Research Alliance,
BARA,
U.S. Department of Energy,
DOE
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Description
Research project aimed to verify whether homes in the New Jersey HPwES program achieved 30% source energy savings, and if so, what measures were implemented to achieve them.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA,
ENERGY STAR
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Description
The ENERGY STAR criteria for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers.
Organization(s)
Florida Solar Energy Center,
FSEC
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Description
Report describing a lighting and smart power strip retrofit evaluation that was conducted on 56 all-electric, existing Florida homes to see how lighting and miscellaneous electric loads might be reduced.
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EPA
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Description
PDF detailing the inspection and verification guidance for WaterSense labeled new homes including indoor and outdoor efficiency requirements, and homeowner and building management education.
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EPA
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Description
Resource to help builders better understand the WaterSense requirements for labeled homes and assist them in meeting the criteria so they can receive the label for their new construction.
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EPA,
WaterSense
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Description
Resource that provides a checklist of program criteria for water-efficient new homes under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) WaterSense program.
Organization(s)
Partnership for Advanced Residential Retrofit,
PARR,
Gas Technology Institute,
GTI Energy
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Description
This measure guideline provides guidance on combustion safety inspection procedures for appliances and heating equipment that use indoor air for combustion and dilution of flue gases in low-rise residential buildings.
Organization(s)
Center for Energy and Environment,
CEE,
NorthernSTAR Building America Partnership,
NorthernSTAR,
University of Minnesota,
UMN
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Description
Measure Guideline describing how to assess and carry out the isolation of natural draft combustion appliances from the conditioned spaces of low-rise residential buildings.
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NREL
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Description
Infographic providing details on choosing the right advanced power strip based on your habits to reduce the electricity wasted when your electronic devices are idle.
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DOE
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Description
Factsheet profiling a simple modification that can be made to window air-conditioners to improve their energy efficiency.
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California Energy Commission
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This CASE report proposes updates and revisions to the standards for residential swimming pool filtration pumps, new and replacement single phase pump motors under 5 horsepower (HP), controllers, portable electric spas as well as expanding the scope of the current standards to include light emitting...
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Green Building Advisor,
GBA
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Description
Information sheet about unvented fireplaces and combustion safety.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
NREL
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Description
Report summarizing the results of laboratory testing of 20 advanced power strip products.