Biden’s Energy Department Is Now Coming for Our Ceiling Fans
The Republican-led House Small Business Committee wrote to the Department warn the new rules could put 10-30 percent of manufacturers out of business.
If there has been a more humanity-hating administration than Biden’s, I could not name it.
So far, the Biden administration goons at the Energy Department have come after our:
Now, the Biden Energy Department is targeting our ceiling fans.
The Department of Energy is proposing a rule that would require ceiling fans to be more energy efficient, arguing the move would save U.S. households on energy costs.
According to the Energy Department’s analysis, the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan. However, the cost to manufacturers associated with the increased equipment will total $86.6 million per year, the department said.
…In a statement to FOX Business on Friday, a DOE spokesperson defended the potential new rule changes, saying, “These proposed standards, which are required by Congress, wouldn’t take effect until 2028, would give Americans more energy efficient options to choose from, and would save hardworking taxpayers up to $369 million per year, while substantially reducing harmful air pollution — a crucial fact that some have conveniently failed to mention.”
The agency said standard residential ceiling fans complying with the proposed rule would cut consumers’ electricity costs to operate fans by roughly 40% compared to with the least-efficient fans currently on the market. The DOE estimates the purchase price of fans would increase by around $10 a piece if the new regulations are put in place, and says that additional cost would be covered by energy bill savings in about four years.
Republicans in the US Congress are pushing back against these new regulations.
Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas who chairs the House Small Business Committee, wrote to Jennifer Granholm, the energy secretary, on Thursday to demand they rethink the plan.
‘This rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products and may put between 10 and 30 percent of small business ceiling fan manufacturers out of business,’ wrote Williams and his colleagues.
‘It appears that the Department of Energy (DOE) may not have properly considered small entities during this rulemaking process.’
Williams sent Granholm a list of five questions, asking for specifics on the proposal and seeking information on whether the department expects manufacturers to abandon their existing fans, or rework them.
The thrust of the letter is the demand that the Energy Department consider the consequences of the regulations on small businesses instead of trying to deal with the fallout from unintended and unanticipated consequences later. Such an approach would be a dramatic change from how any entity in the Biden administration currently behaves.
A review of the expected savings to consumers versus the impact on manufacturers is staggering.
If the standards are implemented, ceiling fan owners could see energy savings with the new energy-efficient fans by saving $16.69 over the lifespan of the fan for standard ceiling fans.
However, the cost borne by the ceiling fan industry could be hefty, with conversion costs estimated at $107.2 million.
However, when you are a humanity-hating, eco-activist bureaucrat exercising power, the joy of a new regulation is priceless.
I love my ceiling fans more than my stove and air conditioning.
— Dr. Windrunner (@DrWindrunner) August 27, 2023
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What is more efficient than an alternating current induction motor? Certainly not a brushed DC, brush drag on a commutator bites into efficiency.
Brushless DC? Requires a DC converter, suffers I2r loss and creates heat
Tesla figured it out, and you can do no better with the prime mover.
Focus on energy density of storage.
One that is 40% smaller, with 40% less power and is capable of moving 40% less air.
In other words, just like with toilets, dish washers, clothes washers, faucets and light bulbs….they’re going to make them “more efficient” by making them not work as well.
… they’re going to make them “more efficient” by making them not work as well.
And make them more expensive to manufacture. As a consumer, you’ll have to pay more for a product that doesn’t work as well and doesn’t last as long, and the “savings” never quite cover the increased cost.
Exactly, because they confuse gross power with efficiency. Efficiency, as such, will almost certainly go down.
You think this is bad, what does the cackler in chief have in mind for us?
The rationale for the administration’s open borders policy is now evident. The hordes of low IQ peasants streaming across the border will quell the climate emergency by acting as punkah wallahs.
Today fans, tomorrow shoe lace aglets. They are like tiny straws, after all. They should be paper.
You heard it here first.
Then, a switch to paper IV lines.
“Their true purpose is sinister.”
They will be replaced by Organic Velcro (wool on one side, goat-head awns on the other).
According to the Energy Department’s analysis, the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan.
It sounds like the additional cost to buy the new fans will be more than $39, which kinda cancels out the “savings”.
The latest efficiency numbers for air conditioners mean they already came for those. A new replacement AC Unit will cost at least TWICE as much. And, the next round of requirements will insure it costs FOUR times as much.
Matt – FWIW – you get nearly twice the efficiency improvement by using solid sheet metal duct work instead of the flex duct currently used in attic space. The improved efficiency going from 12SEEr to 15 SEER is tiny compared to improved air flow.
FWIW r22 is a much more efficient refrigerent than the 410 and operates at much lower pressures thus more energy efficient. But gotta save the ozone.
Now r410 is being phased out and the proposed new refrigerent has propane component which is obviously flamable.
Stupid as !!!
Notice how refrigerants become bad for the environment when their patents are due to expire.
From the article it’s a bogus complaint. Savings are always given per fan and cost to manufacturers are given only in total. No way to get to per-fan for comparison. Concealed for some reason, assume duplicity.
Savings are a little bogus because in heating season there’s no efficiency loss. All the energy, no matter how inefficient, heats the house watt for watt.
Among the things I’ve never worried about: The energy bill for my electric fans. I don’t know if my fans here in Arizona cost me $10/year or $17 – nor do I care! I sure don’t need the Federal Government trying to cut my $17 annual bill – if that is what it is – down to $14.
Here in Arizona, this justifies lethal force response from the militia.
Save just over $16 bucks over the life of the fan eh? So just a few fractions of a cent per year based on use? Wow, thanks gubmint!
Plus, when your fan dies, your next one will cost you four times as much because 3/4 of the manufacturers will be out of business.
Check out these great deals I found on waterbeds and CFLs!
Maybe one could stand in the breeze from the giant, bird killing windmills….stay out of the “sling zone” though, the zone of death from ice and snow that is flung off the giant blades.
What was the cost per kilowatt hour that they used to determine the cost savings over the life of the fan? (I’m gonna guess high.)
Whenever you see the phrase “The DOE estimates…” you can expect a giant pile of BS to follow. There are *always* trade-offs and lies in any change, much like the flammable refrigerant that we’re being forced into. I’d be willing to bet cold hard cash that the new ‘efficient’ ceiling fans cost far more than estimated, save far less money per year, and catch on fire more frequently once we get down the road a bit.
That catching on fire bit seems to be a frequent result of late, doesn’t it?
Hunter must have business friends who sell antiperspirant.
How about not requiring ANYTHING from manufacturers because you have no legal standing under the Constitution to set rules for “efficiency”?
Then, how about you [lengthy censored rant]?
Let’s save energy by turning off all the electricity in DC, requiring gov’t workers to use fanless computers and to enure no ceiling fans or a/c (or heat) is used in their work-from-home offices.
Oh, and send Congress into recess until the election.
That should do more for the environment than their proposed regulation and it would save the taxpayer much more than a paltry few pennies a year.
If the PTB are allowed to implement the whole of their back room agenda, we are going to end up on Animal Farm.
I have a better idea: how about making clean, abundant energy available by constructing more nuclear power plants? The price of energy would be bound to come down as well.
The Department of Energy is proposing a rule that would require ceiling fans to be more energy efficient, arguing the move would save U.S. households on energy costs.
Want to know what else would save U.S. households on energy costs? Letting your home heat up to 90+ degrees in the summer, and drop below freezing in the winter! Just put on a sweater and you’ll be fine.
Want to save even more? Die of heat stroke or hypothermia so you no longer consume ANY energy!
According to the Energy Department’s analysis, the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan.
And the estimated lifespan of a ceiling fan is, what, 15 years? 20? More? (I’ve known several that have functioned with zero problems for over 30, and still counting.) So we’ll “save” a total of $2-ish per year, or pennies per month.
Meanwhile, compliance with the new regulations will increase the manufacturing costs of ceiling fans by, what, $50 per unit? $100?
Only a government program could “save” you money by costing you more.
This is your tax dollars at work.
The ceiling fans in the house I sold last year were 40 years old. still operating fine and ran 24/7. Somehow, I doubt the new “energy efficient” fans will match that lifespan.
“Letting your home heat up to 90+ degrees in the summer, and drop below freezing in the winter!”
Our local utility has begun Karening us via email about “you used X kW more electricity during on-peak hours this week than last week.” Well, yeah, Dorkus, it was 115°+ this week, and it wasn’t last week. Look at the pretty bar graph you sent us of power demand broken down by each hour of the day — the hour-to-hour relative heights haven’t changed, they’re just all taller. What do you expect me to do about it, Steinmetz? Buy a new ceiling fan?
I have to say I don’t see where in the constitution is the federal government given the authority to regulate ceiling fans
Or auto safety, or any form of home appliance, or to give any agency the right to generate and enforce laws.
Well this is Reason #10,465,999 to get rid of the DOE.
Everything Biden’s Admin has done is to destroy the USA. No one is running the Departments correctly and they show most need to be eliminated. We can hope Trump is elected in 2024 and wipes out most of all the Departments and agencies in 4 years.
They’re just trying to create jobs for all the cheap labor they’ve let in the southern door.
Just as planned.
From what I’ve seen most ceiling fans quit because of increased drag and resultant overheating due to dry, worn bearings. You can bet there will be no way to oil the fan bearings to extend their life so the bearings will dry out in ten or twelve years – unless there’s a way to pierce the bearing seal with the needle of a syringe containing light weight oil.
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“The DOE estimates the purchase price of fans would increase by around $10 a piece if the new regulations are put in place, and says that additional cost would be covered by energy bill savings in about four years.”
Even if they aren’t lying, that is such a small energy savings that it would be outweighed by the cost of publishing new regulations!
This whole issue is a Tenth Amendment violation.
We need to dissolve the Administrative State.