Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act

This bill changes the rules for how the Department of Energy (DOE) sets energy-saving standards for household appliances like gas stoves, clothes washers, and dishwashers. It gives DOE more flexibility on timing for updating standards and allows standards to be changed or removed if they raise costs for consumers, don't save much energy or water, aren't technically practical, or make certain products unavailable to buyers. The bill also requires DOE to publicly disclose certain meetings with groups that have ties to China, have pushed for limits on energy use, or have received federal money. Additionally, it stops DOE from setting new energy standards for distribution transformers, which are devices used to deliver electricity.

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