Senate Votes to Repeal Biden Rule Restricting Residential Gas Furnaces by Naveen Athrappully – US Politics News

The U.S. Senate passed a resolution on May 21 repealing a Biden administration policy forcing many Americans to ditch their gas furnaces and rely on electric ones.
On Sept. 29, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) finalized energy efficiency standards that required residential gas furnaces to achieve “an annual fuel utilization efficiency of 95 percent.”
The standards, set to take effect in 2028, necessitate that in four years, manufacturers must sell only furnaces that transform 95 percent of the fuel into heat. The current industry standard is 80 percent.
“This standard is readily achievable by modern condensing furnaces, which use secondary heat exchangers to capture excess heat from the furnace’s exhaust gases,” the agency said….