# Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Consumer Water Heaters and Residential-Duty Commercial Water Heaters
> **US Department of Energy** · Final rule. · Published 2023-06-21 · Effective 2023-07-21 · 88 FR 40406
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-11429
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Energy
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 40406
- **CFR reference:** 10 CFR 429
- **Publication date:** 2023-06-21
- **Effective date:** 2023-07-21
- **Energy docket:** EERE-2019-BT-TP-0032
## Abstract

This final rule incorporates by reference the latest version of the industry testing standard for consumer water heaters and residential-duty commercial water heaters and adopts relevant portions of those standards into the Federal test procedure. In this final rule, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is also expanding the scope of coverage of the test procedure to apply to certain consumer water heater designs (including circulating water heaters and low-temperature water heaters), adding definitions for certain specialty water heaters, updating test conditions and tolerance requirements to reduce burden, clarifying test set-up and installation methods, addressing the test conduct for products which can store water at temperatures above the delivery setpoint, establishing an effective volume calculation, and extending untested provisions to electric instantaneous water heaters.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/21/2023-11429/energy-conservation-program-test-procedure-for-consumer-water-heaters-and-residential-duty)
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