Guide to Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations
Canada’s Energy Efficiency Act (Act) and Energy Efficiency Regulations (the Regulations)
Introduction to the Regulations
- Who is affected by the Regulations?
- Responsibilities of dealers
- Energy efficiency standards
- Energy efficiency report
- Import reporting
- Verification mark
- Labelling requirements
- Exemptions
- Federal and provincial energy efficiency legislation
- Useful links
Energy efficiency regulations by province
Some provinces also have their own energy efficiency regulations for many of the federally regulated products – find out which ones!
Regulated products
All of these regulated products must meet federal energy efficiency standards in order to be imported into Canada or shipped from one province to another for the purpose of sale or lease. The Regulations continue to apply to these products if they are incorporated into a larger unit or machine, even when that unit or machine is an unregulated product.
Appliances - household
- Clothes dryers
- Clothes washers (and household-style commercial)
- Dehumidifiers
- Dishwashers
- Electric ranges
- Freezers
- Gas ranges
- Integrated clothes washer-dryers
- Microwave ovens
- Miscellaneous refrigeration products
- Refrigerators, and refrigerator-freezers
Commercial refrigeration equipment
- Commercial refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers
- Ice-makers
- Refrigerated vending machines
- Walk-in freezer and walk-in cooler components
Electronic products
Heating and air-conditioning equipment
- Electric boilers
- Electric furnaces
- Energy-recovery and heat-recovery ventilators
- Gas fireplaces
- Gas furnaces
- Gas boilers
- Gas-fired unit heaters
- Ground-source heat pumps
- Internal water loop heat pumps
- Large air conditioners, heat pumps and condensing units
- Oil-fired boilers
- Oil-fired furnaces
- Packaged terminal air conditioners and heat pumps
- Portable air conditioners
- Room air conditioners
- Single package central air conditioners and heat pumps
- Split-system central air conditioners and heat pumps
- Single package vertical air conditioners and heat pumps
Industrial/commercial equipment
- Chillers
- Clean water pumps
- Commercial pre-rinse spray valve
- Dry-type transformers
- Motors - electric
- Motors - small electric
Lighting products
- Ceiling fans and ceiling fan light kits
- Compact fluorescent lamps (CFL)
- Exit signs
- Fluorescent lamp ballasts
- General service fluorescent lamps
- General service incandescent reflector lamps
- General service lamps and modified spectrum incandescent lamps
- Metal halide lamp ballasts
- Torchieres
- Traffic signal modules and pedestrian modules
Water heaters
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