AHRI Keeps Pressure on DOE to Correct Errors in Walk-in Coolers Rule

One core principle of the United States Energy Policy and Conservation Act is that efficiency rules be based on what is technologically feasible. The Department of Energy (DOE) seems to have ignored that principle when it wrote the energy efficiency standards for commercial walk-in coolers and freezers (WICF) in a final rule released June 3, 2014. According to the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), DOE set efficiency levels above even its own determination of what the maximum technology is for some types of this equipment.