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H.R. 906: To modify the efficiency standards for grid-enabled water heaters.

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H.R. 906: To modify the efficiency standards for grid-enabled water heaters.

114th Congress · introduced 2015-02-11 · Energy · Latest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 102.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-02-11 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 102. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

To modify the efficiency standards for grid-enabled water heaters.

Plain summary

(Sec. 1) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to provide additional energy conservation standards applicable to grid-enabled water heaters for use as part of an electric thermal storage or demand response program (a program that enables customers to reduce or shift their power use during peak demand periods). Requires annual reports from: (1) manufacturers of such water heaters regarding the quantity of the products shipped each year, and (2) utilities and other demand response and thermal storage program operators regarding the quantity of products activated for their programs. Requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to publish analyses of data collected from such reports and to establish procedures to prevent product diversion if sales of the products exceed by at least 15% the quantity activated for use in the demand response and thermal storage programs annually. Maintains the standards and publication procedures established by this Act until the Secretary determines that: (1) such water heaters do not require a separate efficiency requirement, or (2) procedures to prevent product diversion for non-program purposes would not be adequate to prevent such product diversion. Requires DOE to consider the impact of EPCA electric water heater standards on thermal storage and demand response programs, including on energy savings, electric bills, peak load reduction, electric reliability, integration of renewable resources, and the environment. Directs DOE to require the water heaters be equipped with communication capability to enable the grid-enabled water heaters to participate in ancillary services programs if the technology is available, practical, and cost-effective. Makes it unlawful for any person to: activate an activation lock for a grid-enabled water heater with knowledge that it is not used as part of such program, distribute an activation key for such a water heater with knowledge that it will be used to activate a heater that is not used as part of the program, enable such water heater to operate at its designed specification and capabilities with knowledge that it is not used as part of the program, or knowingly remove or render illegible the label of a such water heater.

Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to House without amendment), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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What does this mean? (plain words)

Official text

To modify the efficiency standards for grid-enabled water heaters.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to House without amendment)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1] · 17 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 906, a bill to modify the efficiency standards for grid-enabled water heaters (2015-05-05)

Cosponsors on this site

Peter Welch (D-VT), Robert E. Latta (R-OH), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Steve Womack (R-AR)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr906 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114