Proposed Refrigerator Standards Would Save Consumers Money, Protect the Climate

Proposed Refrigerator Standards Would Save Consumers Money, Protect the Climate MARCH 2023 Federal efficiency standards for residential refrigerators and freezers have not been updated in more than a decade, even as energy-saving technologies have improved. [...] refrigerators (such as top-mount and bottom- consumers up to mount refrigerator-freezers) and standard-size freezers (upright and chest freezers), as well as $20 billion for compact refrigerators and freezers (used in and stave off hotels and dorm rooms, for example). [...] These technologies would help refrigerators in the United States catch up to models in Europe and Japan, where the efficiency standards for refrigerators are stronger. [...] ASAP organizes and leads a broad-based coalition effort that works to advance, win, and defend new appliance, equipment, and lighting standards that cut emissions that contribute to climate change and other environmental and public health harms, save water, and reduce economic and environmental burdens for low- and moderate-income households. [...] For these models, DOE estimates that the average incremental cost for low-income households at the proposed standard level is just $20, and the average payback period for these households is about two years.