Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act

This bill, known as the "Don't Mess With My Home Appliances Act," significantly amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to impose new restrictions on the Secretary of Energy's authority to prescribe new or amended energy conservation standards for covered products. It explicitly prohibits the Secretary from issuing any standard that is not determined to be both technologically feasible and economically justified. The legislation introduces stringent new criteria for economic justification, requiring a quantitative economic impact analysis to ensure standards do not result in additional net costs to consumers and achieve specific energy or water savings thresholds.

Furthermore, the bill revises the process for petitions, allowing for the amendment or revocation of existing standards if they lead to additional consumer costs, lack significant energy or water conservation, are not technologically feasible, or make products commercially unavailable. It mandates public disclosure of meetings with certain entities before prescribing new standards and requires a regulatory review within two years to ensure standards remain feasible and justified, with the power to revoke non-compliant standards. Notably, the bill also enacts a specific prohibition on the Secretary from prescribing any new or revised energy conservation standards for distribution transformers.