Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) announced
that they had approved the DOE’s final rule on ASHRAE 2016 Determination. DOE
should publish this ‘determination’ in the Federal Register this week.
In an earlier blog
post I opined that this may be related to the publication of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standard on the Facility Smart Grid
Information Model (FSGIM; ASHRAE 201-2016). Since this rulemaking is was not
included in the latest version of the Unified Agenda, I was looking for a
possible explanation for what DOE was doing. Subsequent investigation has shown
that I was probably wrong.
It looks like this ‘determination’ is actually related to
the DOE’s responsibility under 42
USC 6833(b)(2)(A) to determine if the latest version of ASHRAE Standard 90.1
(in this case the 2016
version) “will improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings”. Last
September DOE published their preliminary
determination analysis that the 2016 version would improve energy efficiency
and requested
public comments on their draft report.
Since this final rule almost certainly pertains to energy
efficiency not smart grid implementation, I doubt that this rulemaking will
have any further mention in this blog.
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