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DOE/EE RIN: 1904-AE12 Publication ID: Spring 2022 
Title: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers 
Abstract:

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is initiating a rulemaking to consider whether to amend energy conservation standards for distribution transformers and determine whether changes to market conditions for steel and liquid immersed distribution transformers, particularly the supply chain for amorphous steel, justify reevaluating the energy conservation standards for transformers that DOE adopted in April 2013. Once completed, this rulemaking will fulfill DOE's statutory obligation to propose amended energy conservation standards for these products or to determine that the existing standards do not need to be amended.  To this end, DOE must determine whether national standards more stringent than those currently in place would result in a significant amount of energy savings and whether such amended national standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified.

 
Agency: Department of Energy(DOE)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage 
Major: Undetermined  Unfunded Mandates: Undetermined 
CFR Citation: 10 CFR 431.191 to 196   
Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6295 (m)(1)    42 U.S.C. 6295(y)    42 U.S.C. 6316(a)    42 U.S.C. 6317(a)   
Legal Deadline:
Action Source Description Date
Final  Statutory  Subject to 6-year-look-back in 42 U.S.C. 6295(m)(1); 42 U.S.C. 6316(a)   
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Request for Information (RFI)  06/18/2019  84 FR 28239   
RFI Comment Period End  08/02/2019 
Notice of Availability of Preliminary Technical Support Document  08/27/2021  86 FR 48058   
Preliminary Analysis Reopened  11/16/2021  86 FR 63318   
Preliminary Technical Support Document Comment End   12/10/2021 
NPRM/Proposed Determination  10/00/2022 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined  Government Levels Affected: Undetermined 
Federalism: Undetermined 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Information URL: www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/appliancestandards/standards.aspx?productid=55&action=viewcurrent  
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Jeremy Dommu
Building Technologies Office, EE-2J
Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20585
Phone:202 586-9870
Email: jeremy.dommu@ee.doe.gov