Together with state and federal partners, ODOE helps create standards which will reduce energy consumption, will meet consumer needs, and can be implemented by manufacturers.
The Oregon Department of Energy
coordinates with local partners, other states, and national experts to review
the minimum state energy efficiency standards and evaluate opportunities to
update existing standards or adopt new standards to promote energy conservation
in Oregon, achieve cost effectiveness for consumers, or as the result of
federal action or the outcome of collaborative discussions with manufacturers
and other states.
Background
While some appliance efficiency standards are set at the
federal level, there are also products that do not yet have a national standard
and for which a state standard could achieve meaningful energy and water
savings and greenhouse gas reductions. Oregon has periodically enacted
appliance efficiency standards as a method of saving consumers money and saving
energy. Appliance efficiency standards provide the potential for significant
cost savings and greenhouse gas reduction.
In 2005, Oregon established its first appliance
energy efficiency standards for 11 product categories. Oregon subsequently
added 6 new standards in 2007, 3 more in 2013, and most recently 9 new
standards and 2 updated standards in 2021. Often, federal standards are later
modeled after standards that were first enacted at the state level. Once
adopted at the federal level, federal standards preempt state standards.
Thirteen of Oregon’s previous appliance standards have been preempted by the
federal government.
Energy Efficiency
Standards
Oregon has established
standards for multiple products that are not currently federally regulated,
including:
- DVD players and recorders
- SB 375 (2007)
- Commercial hot food
holding cabinets - SB 375 (2007)
- Compact audio products,
like MP3 players - SB 375 (2007)
- Bottle-type water
dispensers / water coolers – SB 375 (2007), updated in HB 2062 (2021), new
standard effective for products manufactured on or after 1/1/2022
- Portable electric spas –
SB 375 (2007), updated in HB 2062 (2021), new standard effective for products
manufactured on or after 1/1/2022
- Televisions – SB 692
(2013)
- Large battery charging
systems – SB 692 (2013)
- Halogen lamps - SB 692
(2013)
- High CRI fluorescent lamps
- HB 2062 (2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or after
1/1/2023
- Computers and computer
monitors - HB 2062 (2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or
after 1/1/2022
- Residential ventilating
fans - HB 2062 (2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or after
1/1/2022
- Faucets - HB 2062 (2021),
standard effective for products manufactured on or after 1/1/2022
- Shower heads - HB 2062
(2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or after 1/1/2022
- Electric storage water
heaters - HB 2062 (2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or
after 1/1/2022
- Commercial dishwashers -
HB 2062 (2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or after
1/1/2022
- Commercial fryers - HB
2062 (2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or after 1/1/2022
- Commercial steam cookers -
HB 2062 (2021), standard effective for products manufactured on or after 7/1/2023
Executive
Order 17-20
ODOE has been active in evaluating the landscape for
potential standards for improved energy efficiency and cost savings for
Oregonians, supported by directives from recent Executive Orders. EO
17-20 in 2017 directed ODOE to identify categories of appliances for
improved efficiency, and after researching other state activity and conducting
outreach to stakeholders and industry ODOE issued a report
in November 2018 that identified a suite of established standards that
could potentially apply for Oregon.
Executive
Order 20-04
In March 2020,
Governor Brown signed
EO 20-04, directing State of Oregon agencies to take action to
reduce and regulate greenhouse gas emissions toward meeting reduction goals of
at least 45 percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2035 and at least 80 percent
below 1990 levels by 2050. In addition to
the general directives for all agencies, EO 20-04 built upon the directives
in EO 17-20 and provided a specific list of products for ODOE to establish
energy efficiency standards.
In 2020, ODOE hosted
multiple rounds of stakeholder engagement and outreach,
conducted
rulemaking, and filed the final rules on August 28, 2020. These rules are effective on September 1, 2021.
In total, ODOE’s 2020 rulemaking adopted
11
standards, including 9 new standards and 2 updated standards.
All of the new standards for Oregon are
already established in other locations and align with standards and product
definitions already in place in other West Coast states and multiple other
states around the country. Most of the Oregon standards will apply to products
manufactured after January 1, 2022 (with the exception of high CRI lamps, which
is one year later). An important note is
that the effective date is based on the date of manufacture, so existing
inventory and stock of any products manufactured before that date may still
continue to be sold. Also, existing
equipment may remain in-service.
House
Bill 2062 (2021 Legislative Session)
As described above, in
2020, as part of Executive Order 20-04 implementation, the Oregon Department of
Energy adopted efficiency standards for 11 different products through
administrative rule.
HB
2062 conformed statute to those recently adopted rules, as specified in ORS
469.261. These new standards will save Oregonians money, promote energy
conservation in Oregon, reduce energy and water use, reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, and align West Coast market standards. ODOE estimates that the
energy efficiency standards established and increased in HB 2062 represent a
greenhouse gas reduction of nearly 50,000 metric tonnes of annual CO2 emissions
in 2025 and a reduction of over 100,000 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2035
to contribute to Oregon’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. These standards also are estimated to lead to
nearly $30 million of annual energy cost saving for Oregonians in 2025,
increasing to nearly $100 million in savings by 2035.
HB 2062 also implemented
housekeeping measures to remove from statute those existing state standards that have
been preempted by federal standards since originally established in Oregon. Finally, HB 2062
provided ODOE, in consultation with DCBS Building Codes Division Advisory Boards, limited
authority to administratively update standards to a more recent version only for products
with existing Oregon standards.
ODOE will continue to do
its part to help Oregon achieve our emissions reduction goals by establishing
and updating standards for products at least to levels equivalent to the most
stringent standards among West Coast jurisdictions.