Residential Single Family Clothes Washer UES Measure Update Regional Technical Forum September 16, 2014

Residential Clothes Washer Residential Clothes Washer Measure Overview Baseline Type: Current Practice Current Category: Proven Current Status: Active Current Sunset Date: February 28, 2015 Reason for Update/Review: New sales data provided by Bonneville suggests a significantly different Current Practice baseline efficiency than our current CEC* proxy 2 *California Energy Commission appliance database

Staff Highlighted Areas None. 3

Current Practice Baseline RTF’s current practice baseline intends to represent “recent choices of eligible end users in purchasing new equipment and services” 1 Sales data is ideal for this purpose but difficult to come by Our typical solutions: – Shipment data as proxy (even this is hard to come by) – Product registry (or availability) as proxy RTF currently uses the CEC’s appliance database as the most reliable resource for product registryappliance database 4 1 Complete Operative RTF Guidelines. Released 6/ RTF Guidelines

New Data 5 BPA provided sales data for clothes washers and other appliances Data collected by D&R International The table below represents sales for 2013 ENERGY STAR® saturation according to sales data: 54% ENERGY STAR® saturation according to CEC database: 78%

Summary of Updates Re-weighted energy savings and incremental costs to reflect the new ENERGY STAR® saturation estimate One limitation to note: – CEC data still used to estimate the efficiency distribution of machines within the D&R survey bins E.g. the D&R sales data does not tell us how many machines are barely Energy Star vs. far beyond Energy Star – However, proposed weighting scheme is significantly improved over current scheme 6

Summary of Changes to Savings, Cost, TRC Energy Savings – Increased by 43 to 136% (note: some savings values were relatively small before) Incremental costs – Increased by 33 to 114% Life – No change TRC Cost-Effectiveness – All measures remain cost-effective A comparison of current to proposed savings, cost, and TRC can be found on the Presentation tab of the proposed workbook proposed workbook 7

Decision “I __________________ move to: approve the updates to the Residential Single Family Clothes Washer UES measure.” 8