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Survey of Energy Efficiency Labelling of Air Conditioners - Main report (500 kB) (E3 Report 2011/01).
Survey of Energy Efficiency Labelling of Air Conditioners - Summary report (267 kB).
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This report was prepared by Mark Ellis and Associates and the Australian Refrigeration Council Ltd (ARC) for the Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee (E3) under contract to DCCEE.
All energy efficiency agencies operating under the National Framework for Energy Efficiency agreed to commission a national survey of stores displaying air conditioning equipment for sale to assess compliance with mandatory registration and energy labelling requirements.
The survey targeted stores in capital cities, suburban locations and in rural areas as well as stores of varying sizes to gather an impression of the entire market. The survey examined air conditioning products displayed in 321 stores throughout Australia involving individual inspection of all of 3,371 products offered for sale in those stores between May and September 2009.
The survey found that 3,003 (89.1%) air conditioners were labelled correctly. 352 products (10.4%) were not labelled at all and a further 16 products (0.5%) had errors in the way the label was displayed or with the information on the label.
The national compliance rate with mandatory energy labelling of air conditioners can be considered using a range of comparative benchmarks. Almost 9 out of 10 air conditioners carrying an accurate label is an improvement on the previous survey result for this product type conducted in 2005 which found 8 out of 10 air conditioners carried an accurate label.
The compliance rate for air conditioners complying with state and territory legal requirements to register all models prior to being offered for sale was 98.9%. Though slightly less than the equivalent figure for whitegoods (99.4%), this result indicates that the registration requirements are well understood by suppliers of air conditioners in Australia.
Compliance across brands and stores of varying sizes is more variable. The survey results suggest that stores selling smaller numbers of air conditioners tend to have poorer rates of labelling compliance compared to larger stores. The results for individual air conditioner brands show substantial variability, but brands with smaller market share (and hence lower representation in this survey) are more likely to have labelling errors, compared to more popular brands.
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