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Energy and Sustainability Buyer’s Brief
One is a room air conditioner rated on CEER, the other a central heat pump on SEER2 and HSPF2. The rules, ratings and recall…
Energy and Sustainability Buyer’s Brief
A garage leaks more air than any room in the house and the door is a hole in the insulation. What published room-size ranges…
Energy and Sustainability Buyer’s Brief
Buyers search for a mini split that runs on house voltage. The capacity ceiling, the breaker the maker actually specifies and the cold-weather cost…
Energy and Sustainability Buyer’s Brief
Pre-charged line sets put a sealed refrigerant circuit in a box on a pallet. What the federal rules say about opening one, buying refrigerant…
Energy and Sustainability Explainer
A heat pump water heater that runs on an ordinary 120-volt circuit now has its own ENERGY STAR criterion, five years before the amended…
Energy and Sustainability Trend Report
Power and energy reporting are now part of the Matter specification rather than a vendor app feature, and electricity keeps climbing. What a metering…
Energy and Sustainability Price Trail
A 1,500-watt heater costs 19 cents an hour in Louisiana and 72 cents in Hawaii. Here is the arithmetic, the state spread and what…
Energy and Sustainability Market Shift
A thermostat changes how long a heater runs, not how much it draws. Here is what the control shift did to the category, and…
Energy and Sustainability Buyer’s Brief
Every indoor heater listing promises tip-over and overheat protection. Here is what the standard requires, what CPSC staff found when they took 27 heaters…
Energy and Sustainability Buyer’s Brief
A heater that lives under a desk sits next to a power strip, gets kicked, and runs while nobody watches it. Here is what…
Energy and Sustainability Trend Report
Right to repair moved from parts and manuals to parts pairing in 2026, when Colorado’s electronics law took effect. What each state law covers,…
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