DOE Appliance and Equipment Standards Program

It is the US Department of Energy program that sets and enforces minimum energy-conservation standards and test procedures for more than 70 product classes covering roughly 90% of home energy use, 70% of commercial building energy use and 30% of industrial energy use - refrigerators, clothes washers and dryers, dishwashers, cooking products, room air conditioners, water heaters and furnaces among them. Under 10 CFR Part 429, manufacturers must certify every basic model they market through the department's Compliance Certification Management System (CCMS); the program republishes those certifications as a searchable public database. A live count during research returned 4,657,149 certified basic-model records across 73 product groups, each carrying the manufacturer's own certified energy-use and efficiency figures.

Datadory turns that certification stream into a maintained feed you can join against catalogs, parc estimates and retail listings. Get a sample of this dataset and we will return rows shaped exactly like the dictionary below, cut to the product groups you name.

One row equals one manufacturer certification for one basic model, and the value columns change with the product group - 73 groups carry their own attribute schemas. Two real shapes:

# CCMS certification record -- residential refrigerator product group
record_id               795686198529
product_group           Refrigerators, Refrigerator-Freezers, and Freezers
brand                   COSTWAY
basic_model_number      BD-60-E
model_numbers_covered   FP11026US-BK
total_adjusted_volume   3.7 cubic feet
annual_energy_use       256.0 kWh/year
refrigerated_volume     2.1 cubic feet

# CCMS certification record -- commercial package air conditioner product group
record_id               843191839745
product_group           Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps - Commercial Package
brand                   DAIKIN
basic_model_number      DPSA035A*BSDSB0B02560*0
rated_cooling_capacity  394000.0 Btu/hour
energy_efficiency_ratio 11.3 Btu/watt-hour

Notice what the second row implies about scope: the same dictionary spans residential refrigerators and multi-hundred-thousand-Btu commercial package units. The same shape holds whether the rows land as an API response, flat files, or a table in your warehouse.

Twelve fields anchor the core dictionary. Definitions come straight from how the program documents its certification data; the example column shows where the field sits in the published scale.

Additional fields on request: product type detail, refrigerated volume, clothes-washer container capacity, integrated water factor and corrected remaining moisture content, dishwasher place-setting capacity, and certification report-date fields. Column-level naming gets locked down for your pipeline when we prepare your sample.

Three chips summarize the footprint:

• Geography: the United States - federally regulated products marketed in the US market, across residential, commercial and industrial product classes.
• Time frame: a rolling window. The database holds certifications for current basic models submitted within the past year, so it describes today's compliant assortment rather than a historical archive.
• Granularity: one record per certified basic model, keyed on the internal record pointer and joined to its product-group schema. Groups range from hundreds to tens of thousands of records - residential refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers alone account for 15,357.

Set against the wider Datadory catalog - where the average quality score across all 1,744 datasets is 7.81 - this slice scores 9/10, carried by verified field definitions and per-group schemas documented at the attribute level.

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

You choose the channel and the cadence; the field dictionary above travels unchanged across all three. API responses suit event-driven compliance checks, bulk files suit overnight warehouse loads, and a queryable table suits analysts who live in a BI tool. Cadence changes are a settings conversation, not a re-integration project.

Ranked by how directly the certification stream answers their day job:

1. Compliance and regulatory analysts. Before a model ships, confirm the certification trail exists - and monitor whether a rival's basic model carries a test-procedure waiver flag.
2. Competitive intelligence & product teams. Certified model counts per brand per product group reveal who is invested in which categories, and where a competitor has quietly gone quiet.
3. Data scientists & ML engineers. Model-level certified energy use paired with physical attributes (adjusted volume, capacity, efficiency ratios) is rare labeled training material for efficiency benchmarking.
4. Market researchers & consultants. 73 regulated product groups quantify the enforced-efficiency landscape behind the US appliance market for sizing and entry studies.
5. E-commerce operators. Certified specification values and the FTC EnergyGuide label linkage populate product-detail attributes without hand-keying from label images.
6. Journalists & academics. One caveat travels with every figure - DOE states published values are manufacturer representations and the public database has no legal significance - which makes the dataset more citable, not less, once stated plainly.

For contrast inside the same industry: ENERGY STAR Certified Products & Datasets (Socrata) lists products that earned the voluntary label, while this slice captures the mandatory self-certifications behind federal minimum standards - and EU EPREL is the European labelling analogue if your scope crosses the Atlantic.

Notes that pair well with this page:

• Household appliances data hub - the full pooled view of the industry, from certification records to metered load traces.
• ENERGY STAR certified products vs DOE standards program - voluntary label listings against mandatory minimum-standard certifications, two halves of one compliance story.
• Persona pages - what compliance-minded product teams, data scientists and developers each do with this slice, industry by industry.