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Residential Refrigerators, Refrigerator-Freezers, and Freezers Analytical Tools

This page presents the analytical tools associated with the preliminary technical support document (TSD) for residential refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers.

Life Cycle Cost Spreadsheets

• Product Class 3
• Product Class 5
• Product Class 7
• Product Class 9
• Product Class 10
• Product Class 11
• Product Class 18

National Impact Analysis Spreadsheets

• Compact Refrigerators
• Compact Refrigerator-Freezers
• Freezers
• Refrigerator-Freezers

Instructions on how to use these spreadsheets can be found in the appendices to the preliminary TSD. Download Adobe Reader.

Design Option Analysis Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets for All Analyzed Product Classes (.zip 702 KB)
Download Winzip.

Energy-efficient Refrigerator Analysis Program (ERA)

• ERA for Microsoft Windows and associated files
• Compressor mapping files for use with ERA (.zip 14 KB)

Download Winzip.

The linked .exe file will install and run ERA for Windows. A description of the program and how to use it can be found in Appendix 5-B of the preliminary TSD

ERA Disclaimers

This Energy-efficient Refrigerator Analysis program ("ERA") is posted for the limited purpose of providing full disclosure of the analysis tools used by the Department of Energy ("DOE") in analysis conducted for the energy conservation standard rulemaking for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers. ERA may not be distributed without express permission of the DOE.

This material was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor the DOE, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.

Because this program was used by DOE in conjunction with other supporting data and analytical tools to perform its analysis, the ERA data do not constitute the sole means of reaching any conclusions associated with the analysis performed by DOE in determining the energy efficiency standards adopted by DOE. The ERA program design, as described in the Technical Support Document ("TSD"), is intended to provide a simulation of various technological options to support efficiency standards analysis and should not be considered as a predictive tool for the performance of a given technological option. Any use which an individual user or other third party makes of ERA, or any reliance on it, or decisions to be made based on it, are the responsibility of the individual user or such third party.

Contact Information

Lucas Adin
202-287-1317