Survey of Energy Efficiency Labelling of Televisions - A Report on Inspections of 101 Retail Television Outlets in Australia

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Summary

All energy efficiency agencies operating under the National Framework for Energy Efficiency agreed to commission a national survey of stores displaying televisions for sale to assess compliance with mandatory registration and energy labelling requirements. The survey was project managed by staff within the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and conducted by regional employees of the Australian Refrigeration Council Ltd (ARC).

Energy efficiency programs have been in operation in some jurisdictions for more than 20 years. State and territory government legislation gives force to the energy performance and efficiency labelling requirements as set out in the relevant Australian Standards. These state and territory efforts became national applicable from 1992.

Televisions have been subject to mandatory minimum energy performance standards and mandatory energy labelling since 1 October 2009. Prior to the introduction of regulation, a voluntary energy labelling scheme operated as an interim measure from July 2008 until 1 August 2009.

This survey examined televisions displayed in 101 stores throughout Australia2 and involved individual inspection of 5,140 products offered for sale in those stores between 7 December 2010 and 4 February 2011. It found that 93.2% of televisions were labelled correctly and 98.2% complied with mandatory registration requirements. . Of the remaining 6.8% - 73% did not display a label at all and 22% were not compliant because the label was damaged or, more frequently, obscured.

These results indicate a substantial improvement compared to a preliminary study conducted twelve months earlier that suggested the average national labelling compliance rate could be as low as 76%. Furthermore, as the poorest performing 100 stores from the preliminary study were chosen for this survey, the current labelling compliance average in retail outlets in Australia may in fact exceed 93.2%.

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