Accelerating the Deployment of Super-Efficient Appliances and Equipment with Multi Country Collaboration

In this paper, we analyze the feasibility of a multi country collaboration to accelerate the deployment of super-efficient appliances and equipment 1 by providing financial incentives to manufactures in addition to collaboration on labeling of super efficient products and minimum energy performance standards. Given that only about fifteen manufactures produce more than 70% of the world’s major energy consuming appliances and equipment, many of these appliances and equipment are very similar across multiple countries, and a few appliances and equipment constitute a large portion of the residential and commercial electricity consumption, we lay out key benefits and options for multi country collaboration on accelerating the penetration of super efficient appliances and equipment. We conclude that there are many benefits of such multi country collaboration which could lead to a rapid and much required scaleup in capturing the vast cost effective energy efficiency potential. We argue that the Superefficient Equipment and Appliances Deployment program (SEAD) announced by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu on December 14 Copenhagen, which draws its key elements on the analysis presented in the paper, is a step in the right direction to foster such multi country collaboration and needs to be supported by the energy efficiency community.