In April 2022, Natural Resources Canada announced its intent to launch Amendments 18 and 19 to Canada’s Energy Efficiency Regulations.  The amendments will update testing procedures and/or energy efficiency standards for 19 currently regulated products and will introduce requirements for seven new products.

This includes 3-phase central air conditioners and central heat pumps and large air conditioners and heat pumps.

Updating Currently Regulated Products	Adding a New Product Category
Refrigerators	Clothes Dryers (Vented Gas)
Combination Refrigerator-Freezers	Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Freezers	Pool Pumps
Clothes Washers	Showerheads
Integrated Clothes Washer-Dryers	Faucets
Clothes Dryers
Dishwashers
Portable Air Conditioners
Electric Water Heaters
Room Air Conditioners
Battery Chargers
External Power Supplies
Gas-Fired Water Heaters
Oil-Fired Water Heaters
Ice Makers (Automatic Commercial)
Large Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps
General Service Lighting
General Service Fluorescent Lamps
Metal Halide Lamp Ballasts

Between June 22 and June 30, 2022, NRCan held a series of webinars to initiate the pre-consultation phase for the amendments.

On amending the regulations for 3-phase central air conditioners and central heat pumps, NRCan is considering aligning testing standards with the U.S. DOE with the following adjustments to account for cold climate conditions in Canada:

• The optional -15°C (5°F) test point in the US DOE test procedure would become mandatory in Canadian regulations.
• The HSPF2 metric that is used to evaluate compliance would be based on Climate Region V (for calculation of the performance metric in the test standard).

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