About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere America 2012
published on 13 June 2012
9 pages
632 KB

Armstrong describes the benefits of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Appliance Standards Program that currently covers products responsible for 79% of residential building energy consumption, 46% of commercial building energy consumption, and approximately 19% of industrial energy consumption. In 2012, standards (either new or amdended) are ongoing for about 25 products types, including miscellaneous residential refrigeration products, commercial refrigeration equipment, single vertical AC & HP, walk-in coolers and freezers, packaged terminal AC & HP, and automatic commercial icemakers. Besides these, final rules have been issued for 8 products in FY 2012. Test procedures are ongoing for about 30 products in 2012, with final rules issued for 16 products in FY 2012. DOE invites stakeholders to actively participate in the regulatory process early and share information regarding alternative refrigerant research, especially where product performance and testing issues need to be considered.

About the speaker(s)

Ashley Armstrong

 

Ashley Armstrong is a member of the Appliance Standards Program at the US Department of Energy. She managers the test procedure development for DOE’s regulatory program and the ENERGY STAR program as well as DOE’s certification, compliance, and enforcement regulations. Prior to this position, Ashley worked at Navigant Consulting for over 6 years, where she was an Associate Director conducting technical analyses for DOE’s appliance standard rulemakings on a wide variety of residential and commercial appliances. Ashley holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech.