Program Area
Appliances
Date Settled
October 2016
Settlement Amount
$120,000.00

Electrolux Home Products, a Charlotte, North Carolina based company that imports and markets Frigidaire branded wine chillers, sold 810 non-complaint units in California between August 2014 and May 2016. The California Energy Commission (CEC) staff had one of these units tested at the California State University, Sacramento-College of Engineering Energy Efficiency Laboratory and found it to be in violation of the energy efficiency regulations governing wine chillers. The CEC staff notified the manufacturer who immediately stopped selling these units in California. Additionally, they have removed the model from the CEC appliance efficiency database. The company is now in full compliance. To settle this matter, the company executed a settlement agreement with CEC on October 4, 2016 for $120,000.00. The penalty monies are deposited into the Appliance Enforcement Subaccount established by SB 454 of 2011 (Pavley).

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