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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 25, 2021 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Representative Average Unit Costs of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In this notice, the U.S.
Department of Energy DOE is forecasting the representative average unit costs of five residential energy sources for the year 2021 pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act Act. The five sources are electricity, natural gas, No. 2 heating oil, propane, and kerosene.
DATES: The representative average unit costs of energy contained in this notice will become effective September 24, 2021 and will remain in effect until further notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. John Cymbalsky, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, EE5B, 1000
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 205850121, 202
2871692, ApplianceStandardsQuestions@
ee.doe.gov.
Ms. Amelia Whiting, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of General Counsel, GC33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 205850103, 202 5862588, Amelia.Whiting@
hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 323 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act requires that DOE
prescribe test procedures for the measurement of the estimated annual operating costs or other measures of energy consumption for certain consumer products specified in the Act.
42 U.S.C. 6293b3 These test procedures are found in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR part 430, subpart B.
Section 323b3 of the Act requires that the estimated annual operating costs of a covered product be calculated SUMMARY:

from measurements of energy use in a representative average use cycle or period of use and from representative average unit costs of the energy needed to operate such product during such cycle. 42 U.S.C. 6293b3 The section further requires that DOE provide information to manufacturers regarding the representative average unit costs of energy. 42 U.S.C. 6293b4 This cost information should be used by manufacturers to meet their obligations under section 323c of the Act. Most notably, these costs are used to comply with Federal Trade Commission FTC
requirements for labeling.
Manufacturers are required to use the revised DOE representative average unit costs when the FTC publishes new ranges of comparability for specific covered products, 16 CFR part 305.
Interested parties can also find information covering the FTC labeling requirements at https www.ftc.gov/
appliances.
DOE last published representative average unit costs of residential energy in a Federal Register notice entitled, Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Representative Average Unit Costs of Energy, dated March 17, 2021, 86 FR 14618.
On September 24, 2021, the cost figures published in this notice will become effective and supersede those cost figures published on March 17, 2021. The cost figures set forth in this notice will be effective until further notice.
DOEs Energy Information Administration EIA has developed the 2021 representative average unit aftertax residential costs found in this notice. These costs for electricity, natural gas, No. 2 heating oil, and propane are based on simulations used to produce the August 2021, EIA ShortTerm Energy Outlook EIA releases the Outlook monthly. The representative average unit after-tax cost for kerosene is derived from its price relative to that of heating oil, based on the 2010 to 2013
averages of the U.S. refiner price to end users, which include all the major energy-consuming sectors in the U.S. for
these fuels. The source for these price data is the July 2021, Monthly Energy Review DOE/EIA00352021/7. The representative average unit after-tax cost for propane is derived from its price relative to that of heating oil, based on the 2021 averages of the U.S. residential sector prices found in the Annual Energy Outlook 2021, AEO2021
February 3, 2021. The Short-Term Energy Outlook, the Monthly Energy Review, and the Annual Energy Outlook are available on the EIA website at https www.eia.doe.gov. For more information on the data sources used in this Notice, contact the National Energy Information Center, Forrestal Building, EI30, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, 202 5868800, email: infoctr@eia.doe.gov.
The 2021 representative average unit costs under section 323b4 of the Act are set forth in Table 1, and will become effective September 24, 2021. They will remain in effect until further notice.
Signing Authority This document of the Department of Energy was signed on August 20, 2021, by Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on August 20, 2021.
Treena V. Garrett, Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.

TABLE 1REPRESENTATIVE AVERAGE UNIT COSTS OF ENERGY FOR FIVE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY SOURCES 2021
Per million Btu 1

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Type of energy Electricity
Natural Gas
No. 2 Heating Oil
Propane
Kerosene

$39.83
10.93
21.62
21.06
25.59

In commonly used terms 13.59/kWh 2 3
$1.093/therm 4 or $11.36/MCF 5 6
$2.97/gallon 7
$1.92/gallon 8
$3.45/gallon 9

As required by test procedure $0.136/kWh.
$0.00001093/Btu.
$0.00002162/Btu.
$0.00002106/Btu.
$0.00002559/Btu.

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook August 10, 2021, Annual Energy Outlook February 3, 2021, and Monthly Energy Review July 27, 2021.
Notes: Prices include taxes.
1 Btu stands for British thermal units.

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