Consumer Products Minimum Energy-Efficiency Standards Program. Topical Report: Subtask 3.1, Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for Clothes Dryers

摘要

The purpose of this study is to asses the desirability of implementing minimum energy efficiency standards for clothes dryers, according to the NECPA requirements, based on the cost effectiveness of the technologically feasible design improvements. Section 2 contains consumer use patterns, typical energy consumption of clothes dryers in the United States, and a discussion of the candidate technical design improvements. The selected design changes and their impact on energy savings, the increased capital cost to the consumer, and the corresponding decreased cost in operation of dryers are discussed in Section 3. The increased cost for compliance by a manufacturer for testing and labeling, according to the NECPA requirements, per unit dryer manufactured, is estimated in Section 4. Section 5 presents the cost benefit analysis for implementing energy efficiency improvement design changes and the minimum efficiency standards. The desirability of implementing minimum energy efficiency is discussed in Section 6, followed by the conclusions and recommendations of the study, which appear in Section 7. (ERA citation 06:028890)