Amendment 18
Energy Efficiency Regulations
June 2024
Pre-publication in the Canada Gazette, Part I
Amendment 18 to the Energy Efficiency Regulations was pre-published in the Canada Gazette, Part I on June 22, 2024. Natural Resources Canada encourages you to submit your comments online using the new commenting feature on the Canada Gazette, Part I website. You can submit comments at any point throughout the 70-day period, but early submission will allow for early analysis of any potential changes to the proposal to address concerns.
Please note that the following technical standards documents are proposed to be incorporated by reference in the Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016 via Amendment 18. The proposed technical standards documents are subject to the same 70-day comment period as the rest of the amendment and generic information about these type of documents are available on the regulatory process page.
| Division in Regulations | Subdivision in Regulations | Technical standards document |
|---|---|---|
| Division 2 – Air Conditioners, Condensing Units, and Chillers | Subdivision A – Room Air Conditioners | TSD-D2SA-001 (PDF 1079KB) |
| Division 7 – Lamps and Lamp Ballasts | Subdivision B – General Service Lamps | TSD-D7SB-001 (PDF 652KB) |
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Table of technical standards documents (TSD)
This table has 2 rows and 3 columns of information, 1 row per product. The first column identifies the product Division in the Regulation, the second column identifies the Subdivision in the Regulations, and the third column contains a hyperlink to the pdf download of the technical standards document for that product.
The first row is for Division 2 – Air Conditioners, Condensing Units, and Chillers; Subdivision A – Room Air Conditioners. The hyperlink for the technical service document is labelled TSD-D2SA-001.
The second row is for Division 7 – Lamps and Lamp Ballasts; Subdivision B – General Service Lamps. The hyperlink for the technical service document is labelled TSD-D7SB-001.
Pre-consultation in advance of pre-publication in Canada Gazette
Webinars for affected products were hosted in June 2022, with technical bulletins released in July 2022, to initiate the public consultation process.
- Room air conditioners (Technical Bulletin)
- Portable air conditioners (Technical Bulletin)
- Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps (3-phase) (Technical Bulletin)
- Large air conditioners and large heat pumps (Technical Bulletin)
- Electric water heaters (Technical Bulletin)
- Gas-fired storage water heaters (Technical Bulletin)
- Oil-fired water heaters (Technical Bulletin)
- General service lamps (Technical Bulletin)
- General service florescent lamps (Technical Bulletin)
- Faucets (Technical Bulletin)
- Air compressors (Technical Bulletin)
- Pool pumps (Technical Bulletin)
- Showerheads (Technical Bulletin)
- Line voltage thermostats (Technical Bulletin)
Forward Regulatory Plan (April 2022)
NRCan first indicated its intention to move forward with Amendments 18 in its Forward Regulatory Plan published in April 2022, which was updated in June 2022 and April 2023 to reaffirm NRCan’s intent to follow through with Amendment 18.
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