Department of Energy July 22, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Western Area Power Administration (Western), a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy, announces its Post-2009 Resource Pool Final Power Allocation developed under the requirements of Subpart CPower Marketing Initiative of the Energy Planning and Management Program (Program) Final Rule, 10 CFR part 905.

The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance, a proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paper Work Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed collection will assist in identifying systemic problems and dependency issues impacting the energy sector's system-wide reliability, survivability and resiliency. This will also enhance pre-event planning to ensure a robust and resilient energy infrastructure in which continuity of business and service reliability are strengthened with industry cooperation.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is adopting amended energy conservation standards for commercial packaged boilers and adopting a new energy conservation standard for water-cooled and evaporatively- cooled commercial package air conditioners and heat pumps with a cooling capacity at or above 240,000 Btu/h and less than 760,000 Btu/h at the efficiency levels specified in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE)/ Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Standard 90.1-2007. DOE has determined that the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 efficiency levels for commercial packaged boilers are more stringent than the existing Federal energy conservation standards and will result in economic and energy savings compared to existing energy conservation standards. Furthermore, DOE has concluded that clear and convincing evidence does not exist, as would justify more-stringent standard levels than the efficiency levels in ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007. In addition, DOE is adopting related amendments to its test procedures for commercial packaged boilers.