Victor Franco

Victor Franco

Policy Researcher III
(510) 486-5147
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Bio

Victor H. Franco is a Principal Scientific Engineering Associate for the Energy Efficiency Standards Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Victor is currently working on the standards for consumer water heaters, consumer furnaces, consumer boilers, commercial furnaces, pool heaters, and direct heating equipment products, as well as the test procedures for residential furnaces and boilers.

Victor has 19 years of experience in standards and test procedures for consumer furnaces and boilers, consumer water heaters, furnace fans, pool heaters, direct heating equipment, clothes dryers, room air conditioners, hearth products, commercial boilers, commercial furnaces, and commercial water heaters.

In addition, he develops life-cycle cost analysis and national impact analysis methodology, and analytical tools spreadsheets for these products in support of the DOE's standards rulemaking process.

Publications

2023

A Survey of Direct Heating Equipment Market Actors in California

Authors: Blum, Helcio; Victor H. Franco, and Sarah K. Price.
01/2023

2021

Water heating energy use reductions from EPA WaterSense lavatory plumbing fittings

Authors: Chen, Yuting; Heidi Fuchs; Jonah Schein; Victor H. Franco; Hannah Stratton; Thomas A. Burke, and Camilla Dunham.
06/2021

2020

Calculating average hot water mixes of residential plumbing fixtures

Authors: Chen, Yuting; Heidi Fuchs; Jonah Schein; Victor H. Franco; Hannah Stratton, and Camilla Dunham.
06/2020

2018

Estimating Residential Appliance Lifetime for Energy Efficient Policy Analysis

Authors: Franco, Victor H.; Youness Bennani Smires; Jing Ke; Edward Cubero, and Alex Lekov.
08/2018

2013

Evaluation of energy efficiency standards for residential clothes dryers in the USA

Authors: Lekov, Alexander B.; Victor H. Franco, and Stephen Meyers.
05/2013

2012

Evaluation of Energy-Efficiency Standards for Room Air Conditioners in the US

Authors: Lekov, Alexander B.; Victor H. Franco, and Stephen Meyers.
09/2012

Using National Survey Data to Estimate Lifetimes of Residential Appliances

Authors: Lutz, James D.; Asa S. Hopkins; Virginie E. Letschert; Victor H. Franco, and Andrew Sturges.
05/2012

2011

Energy Efficiency Design Options for Residential Water Heaters: Economic Impacts on Consumers

Authors: Lekov, Alexander B.; Victor H. Franco; Stephen Meyers; Lisa Thompson, and Virginie E. Letschert.
01/2011

2010

Heat Pump Water Heaters and American Homes: A Good Fit?

Authors: Franco, Victor H.; Alexander B. Lekov; Stephen Meyers, and Virginie E. Letschert.
08/2010

Do Heat Pump Clothes Dryers Make Sense for the U.S. Market?

Authors: Meyers, Stephen; Victor H. Franco; Alexander B. Lekov; Lisa Thompson, and Andrew Sturges.
08/2010

2009

Economics of Residential Gas Furnaces and Water Heaters in United States New Construction Market

Authors: Lekov, Alexander B.; Victor H. Franco; Gabrielle Wong-Parodi; James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan.
10/2009

2008

Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential

Authors: Franco, Victor H.; James D. Lutz; Alexander B. Lekov, and Lixing Gu.
08/2008

2006

Residential Two-Stage Gas Furnaces - Do They Save Energy?

Authors: Lekov, Alexander B.; Victor H. Franco, and James D. Lutz.
05/2006

BPM Motors in Residential Gas Furnaces: What are the Savings?

Authors: Lutz, James D.; Victor H. Franco; Alexander B. Lekov, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi.
05/2006

Electricity and Natural Gas Efficiency Improvements for Residential Gas Furnaces in the U.S.

Authors: Lekov, Alexander B.; Victor H. Franco; Stephen Meyers; James E. McMahon; Michael A. McNeil, and James D. Lutz.

2005

Development of the Household Sample for Furnace and Boiler Life-Cycle Cost Analysis

Authors: Dunham, Camilla; Victor H. Franco; Alexander B. Lekov, and James D. Lutz.
05/2005