Canada’s Energy Efficiency Act (Act) and Energy Efficiency Regulations (the Regulations)
All regulated products must meet federal energy efficiency standards 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.
Energy efficiency regulations by province
Some provinces also have their own energy efficiency regulations for many of the federally regulated products.
Energy efficient regulated products
Household appliances
- 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
Heating and air-conditioning equipment
- Electric boilers
- Electric furnaces
- Energy-recovery and heat-recovery ventilators
- Gas fireplaces
- Gas furnaces
- Gas boilers – household
- Gas boilers – commercial
- Gas-fired unit heaters
- Ground-source heat pumps
- Internal water loop heat pumps
- Large air conditioners, and condensing units - existing requirements
- Large air conditioners - upcoming requirements
- Large heat pumps - existing requirements
- Large heat pumps - upcoming requirements
- Oil-fired boilers – household
- Oil-fired boilers – commercial
- Oil-fired furnaces
- Packaged terminal air conditioners
- Packaged terminal heat pumps
- Portable air conditioners - existing requirements
- Portable air conditioners - upcoming requirements
- Room air conditioners – existing requirements
- Room air conditioners – upcoming requirements
- Single package central air conditioners - existing requirements
- Single package central air conditioners (three phase) - upcoming requirements
- Single package central heat pumps - existing requirements
- Single package central heat pumps (three phase) - upcoming requirements
- Split-system central air conditioners - existing requirements
- Split-system central air conditioners (three phase) - upcoming requirements
- Split-system central heat pumps - existing requirements
- Split-system central heat pumps (three phase) - upcoming requirements
- Single package vertical air conditioners
- Single package vertical heat pumps
Water heaters
- Electric water heaters – commercial
- Electric water heaters – household
- Gas-fired instantaneous water heaters – household
- Gas-fired instantaneous water heaters – commercial
- Gas-fired storage water heaters – household
- Gas-fired storage water heaters – commercial
- Oil-fired water heaters – household
- Oil-fired water heaters – commercial
Commercial refrigeration equipment
- Commercial refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers
- Ice-makers
- Refrigerated vending machines
- Walk-in freezer and walk-in cooler components
Electronic products
- Battery chargers
- Compact audio products
- External power supplies
- Line Voltage Thermostats
- Televisions
- Video products
Industrial/commercial equipment
- Air Compressors – upcoming requirements
- Chillers
- Clean water pumps
- 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 lamps – upcoming requirements
- 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
Plumbing products
- Commercial pre-rinse spray valve
- Faucets – in development
- Pool Pumps – upcoming requirements
- Showerheads – in development
Contact Compliance Operations at: complianceops-opsconformite@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca if you have questions regarding Canada’s Energy Efficiency Regulations.