Publication of Regulations Amending Canada's ...
December 30, 2008
30 December 2008
Publication of Regulations Amending Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations
DECEMBER 2008
Amendment 10 to the Energy Efficiency Regulations was registered on December 12, 2008 and published on December 24, 2008 in the Canada Gazette Part II.
This is the first of three planned amendments to the Energy Efficiency Regulations to deliver energy, greenhouse gas and air pollutant reductions as part of Canada's Clean Air Regulatory Agenda.
The amendment is intended to:
*Increase the stringency of existing minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for some currently regulated products:
Residential gas furnaces, Residential dehumidifiers, Residential dishwashers, Commercial ice-makers;
*Introduce new MEPS and associated reporting and compliance requirements for six products: Residential wine chillers, Torchieres (floor lamps), Ceiling fan lighting, Traffic signal and
pedestrian modules, Commercial clothes washers, Commercial and industrial gas unit heaters;
*Introduce MEPS for general service lamps (common light bulbs) in 2012;
*Require consumer energy performance labelling with energy use in watts, lumen output and hours of use for most common lamps: General service lamps (most medium-based screw-in lamps for general use), General service incandescent reflector lamps (PAR, R. ER and BR lamps), Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).
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