Policy Analysis - Reducing Costs Across America: New Appliance Standards Save Consumers Money in Every State

Appendices A and B describe our methodology, and Appendix C lists the sources for the assumptions for each of the products in our analysis. [...] Table 3 shows the estimated average annual utility bill savings for businesses in each state from the standards for equipment used in the commercial and industrial sectors. [...] We estimated national annual electricity, natural gas, and water savings (where applicable) for each product based on estimated annual shipments in the year the standard takes effect; per-unit energy and (if applicable) water savings; and average product lifetime.2 Our analysis inputs, summarized in Table A1, were based on DOE’s final analysis for each of the standards; details and references for. [...] For products with compliance dates in the first half of the year (i.e., before July 1), we assumed that year for the compliance date; for products with compliance dates in the second half of the year, we used the following year as the assumed compliance date. [...] We calculated the number of lamps of each lamp type being replaced each year based on the stock in the previous year and the average lamp lifetime.