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SOURCE OBSERVATION AUDIT / UPDATED 13 AUGUST 2026

Appliance evidence source freshness

Record coverage, market scope and latest observation dates for every official source system represented in the qualified projection.

1430qualified exact models
7qualified categories
6qualified market hubs
DAILY ATOMIC REFRESH

The newest complete snapshot wins.

The gateway checks the latest R2 source objects daily, builds an inactive projection, verifies the full stored count and activates it only after the quality guard passes.

SOURCE AUDIT

Coverage and observation dates.

A recent retrieval date does not make old product facts new; it states when ApplianceBench last adopted that source snapshot.

Official sourceQualified recordsMarket scopeLatest adopted observation
ENERGY STAR certified products1264United States · CanadaSource date unavailable
US DOE Compliance Certification Management System1264United StatesSource date unavailable
European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL)166European Union / EEASource date unavailable
France official repairability index162FranceSource date unavailable
Australia/NZ GEMS registry5Australia · New ZealandSource date unavailable
Publication rule

No fuzzy titles, no model-family borrowing and no commercial source counted as evidence. The daily job loads a new inactive snapshot, verifies the full stored count, then activates it in one atomic switch.

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