All the energy labels of household appliances and their efficiency known today have changed. Since March 1, all labels have been converted to simplify scales and better order appliances based on their energy efficiency. Say goodbye to well-known tags like A +, A ++, and A +++. This way of including the energy efficiency of household appliances complicates their management. From now on, the scale will go from A (which means that the equipment is the most efficient) to G (the least efficient).
In this article we are going to tell you everything you need to know about the new energy labels and what their characteristics are.
Purpose of the new energy labels
The changes to the energy label come from European institutions. The main objective is to simplify and clarify your information to allow consumers to better understand the efficiency of electrical appliances related to energy consumption in a simpler way. For it, all tags have been revised. Previously, a "+" symbol label was found on the product to improve efficiency. In this way, A +++ devices are more efficient than A + devices.
This type of classification makes it difficult to select all the appliances, so they decided to modify these labels. Energy labels are used primarily on refrigerators, televisions, and other household appliances. This new classification is created by a new instrument test method. These tests are the same ones used by laboratories and manufacturers, but there are some changes to the measurement mechanism. The main objective is to find that the measurement is more appropriate to the real use that is made in the houses.
For this reason, the new labels will be applied to household appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, refrigerators for drinks, washing machines, dishwashers, dryers, electronic screens such as monitors and televisions, lighting sources, among others.
Changes in the naming of energy labels
Although the names of the new energy labels have changed, they will be very similar because they all indicate efficiency, annual consumption of water or energy, noise, load capacity, efficiency of certain functions and duration of certain procedures. As for the washing machine, represents energy consumption and noise consumption during the washing and dehydration stages. The same is true in the refrigerator. The energy label shows the load capacity of the washing machine (kg) and in liters for the refrigerator.
With all these changes, the energy consumption of the products is sought or presented in a more uniform and understandable way. One of the novelties of the new energy labels is that they are combined with QR codes to give access to more information about related appliances. In online product sales or brochures, the letter of energy efficiency is going to be indicated with an arrow and putting the maximum and minimum on the full scale of energy efficiency.
New changes for greater efficiency
You have to know that from the beginning there will be no household appliances with the letter A. The requirements for energy efficiency levels are now much higher to increase the competitiveness of production companies. For example, Refrigerators that used to be A +++ can now be classified as C. The argument for all this is to develop increasingly efficient products that have the ability to reach Class A. In this way, consumers can only choose between high-efficiency appliances.
Level A will initially be empty to accommodate technological development. For this reason, all appliances that belong to Class A are now classified as Class B or Class C. All this means that the consumption limits have been redefined in the new label to allow entry into an energy level. The maximum number of energy categories is 7. They range from the letters A to G. Dark green indicates that it is a highly efficient product, while red is the opposite.
All these values are based on the energy efficiency index, which takes into account both the annual energy consumption and the electricity consumption of each project. For washing machines, energy consumption is based on every 100 wash cycles. Pictograms must be understood. Here are shown the characteristics of the program, load capacity, duration, water consumption, liters of water consumed per wash cycle, levels of dehydration and insufficient washing, dehydration noise and noise emission levels. Noise emissions are classified according to letters A to D.
Annual energy consumption shows the weighted energy consumption in kWh / 100 operating cycles. As long as consumers are interested, the QR code will provide more information about the product.
Energy efficiency in homes
In the end, all that is sought is to achieve energy efficiency in the home to reduce the consumption of resources and avoid environmental pollution. Energy efficiency is defined as the efficient use of energy. That is, when the energy of the process or installation of the equipment is low, and the energy consumed is less than the average energy to carry out the activity, the team will be efficient. An efficient person, service or product dedicated to protecting the environment will not need as much energy to do the same job and can save more energy. In addition, it will strive to make the energy source renewable.
The main objective of energy efficiency is to protect the environment. To this end, it is trying to develop guidelines to reduce our energy intensity and carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. One of the most used tools to promote energy efficiency in society is diffusion. The message needs to be spread that energy efficiency is necessary to help protect the environment. In this way, it is achieved that the user can introduce certain habits in their daily life to reduce consumption to what is necessary and no more.
I hope that with this information you can learn more about the new energy labels and their usefulness.