{"id":1619,"date":"2021-05-10T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2021-05-01T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T14:47:43","slug":"doe-issues-preliminary-determination-on-ashrae-90-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"DOE Issues Preliminary Determination on ASHRAE 90.1-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 21, 2021, DOE issued a&nbsp;<em>preliminary<\/em>&nbsp;determination that Standard 90.1-2019 will achieve greater energy efficiency in buildings subject to the code. DOE estimates national savings in commercial buildings of approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>4.7 percent&nbsp;<em>site<\/em>&nbsp;energy savings<\/li><li>4.3 percent&nbsp;<em>source<\/em>&nbsp;energy savings<\/li><li>4.3 percent&nbsp;<em>energy cost<\/em>&nbsp;savings<\/li><li>4.2 percent&nbsp;<em>carbon emissions<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If the DOE makes a final affirmative determination, and it likely will, states will have two years to certify that they have reviewed the provisions of their commercial building code regarding energy efficiency, and, as necessary, updated their codes to meet or exceed the updated edition of Standard 90.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 1992, 42 U.S.C. 6833 has required the DOE to evaluate new versions of ASHRAE 90.1 or its successor to determine if adopting the new version as a nationwide minimum standard would improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings. If it does, &#8220;each<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/definitions\/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=42-USC-80204913-1033346335&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:42:chapter:81:subchapter:II:section:6833\">\u00a0<\/a>State<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/definitions\/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=42-USC-80204913-1033346335&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:42:chapter:81:subchapter:II:section:6833\">\u00a0<\/a>shall, not later than 2 years after the date of the publication of such determination, certify that it has reviewed and updated the provisions of its\u00a0commercial building\u00a0code regarding energy efficiency in accordance with the revised standard for which such determination was made. Such certification shall include a demonstration that the provisions of such\u00a0State\u2019s\u00a0commercial building\u00a0code regarding energy efficiency meet or exceed such revised standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOE determines ASHRAE 90.1-2019 improves energy efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[46,47],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codes","category-sustainability","tag-ashrae-90-1","tag-energy-efficiency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":149,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=149","url_meta":{"origin":1619,"position":0},"title":"Energy Code Update","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"May 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday the\u00a0DOE issued a\u00a0Notice of Preliminary Determination\u00a0that ANSI\/ASHRAE\/IES Standard 90.1-2013 would achieve greater energy efficiency in buildings subject to the code than its predecessor, 90.1-2010. The preliminary analysis estimates national \u00a0energy savings of approximately 8.5% for\u00a0commercial building energy consumption. 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