CLASP provides assistance to the U.S. energy efficiency S&L community – including the Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Star, Energy Guide, state efficiency programs, Energy Foundation (EF) grantees, utilities, and industry – to achieve the goal of reducing energy use of U.S. appliances by 25 percent from business-as-usual projections.
CLASP provides assistance to the U.S. energy efficiency S&L community – including the Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Star, Energy Guide, state efficiency programs, Energy Foundation (EF) grantees, utilities, and industry – to achieve the goal of reducing energy use of U.S. appliances by 25 percent from business-as-usual projections. This reduction in energy use will potentially reduce carbon emissions by 500 MtCO2/yr in 2020 and 850 MtCO2/yr in 2030.
The U.S. team provides assistance through the following actions and channels:
Improved Test Procedures and Innovation CLASP’s U.S. team supports increasing the potential for U.S. energy savings by promoting energy-saving technological innovation through improved test procedures. Through collaboration with key stakeholders – including product experts, manufacturers, trade associations, test-procedure development organizations, ENERGY STAR, and California’s state program – the U.S. team is working to improve how energy is measured so that test procedures promote energy-saving technological development. The U.S. team initiates product-specific strategies aimed at developing test procedures and rating methods for new products that are not currently part of a U.S. standard or labeling program.
Best Practice Technical Support CLASP’s U.S. team provides best practice technical support to U.S. stakeholders in order to support the development of energy saving standards and labels as well as monitoring verification and enforcement (MV&E) activities. CLASP’s U.S. team supports aggressively accelerating standards and labeling activity so that the U.S. venue develops ten years worth of standards and labels in only five years.