By Angelo Baggini / Published on Mon, 2008-10-20 09:00
Year 2006
Policy Status In force
In January 2006, Natural Resources Canada's (NRCan's) Office of Energy Efficiency proposed to amend Canada's
Energy Efficiency Regulations to require dealers of
self-contained, commercial refrigerators and freezers imported or shipped interprovincially for sale or lease in Canada to
comply with minimum energy performance standards.
NRCan aims to eventually
harmonize Canadian efficiency and certification
standards with those of Energy Star and California. To this end, NRCan proposed a new testing procedure commercial refrigerators and freezers and new efficiency verification and reporting procedures.
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By HDK / Published on Thu, 2005-11-10 12:29
In Factor Four - Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, one of the solutions mentioned are super-refrigerators. In the 70's, the average refrigerator consumed 3.36 kWh/yr per liter volume, but refrigerators nowadays achieve much better performance (for example, see Certified Environmental Product Declaration ER 8199B achieving less than 1). Despite this improvement of a factor 3, there is potential to achieve 0.26, almost 5 times better. For examples of potential super-refrigerators: Sun Frost
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