Canada NRCan Energy Efficiency Approval

If you manufacture and/or trade between provinces and territories and/or import energy-using products into Canada, you need to know whether your product is:

• required to meet minimum energy performance standards under Canada’s Energy Efficiency Regulations;

• required to have an EnerGuide label;

• eligible for ENERGY STAR certification as a high efficiency model.

Canada's Energy Efficiency Act and Energy Efficiency Regulations are administered by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).

Note that some provinces also have their own energy efficiency regulations for many of the federally regulated products. In some cases, provincial regulations may differ from federal requirements or may apply to other types of energy-using equipment. 

All of the following regulated products must meet federal energy efficiency standards in order to be imported into Canada or shipped from one province to another for the purpose of sale or lease:

• Appliances - residential

• Commercial refrigeration equipment

• Electronic products

• Heating and air-conditioning equipment

• Industrial/commercial equipment

• Lighting products

• Water heaters

A full list of Energy Efficiency Regulation product categories may be found here.

Importers are responsible for ensuring that each model of a regulated product they import into Canada for sale or lease, or ship from (inter-provincial shipment):

• meets the energy efficiency standard set out in the Regulations

• depending on the product, an EnerGuide label or a lighting product label is affixed to each unit

• all energy-using products must carry an Energy Efficiency Verification Mark

• before importing submit an energy efficiency report filed with NRCan

• provide the necessary Import Reporting to Canada Border Services Agency

Starting from February 2015, importers of regulated energy-using products are able to submit import data required by Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations through the Single Window Initiative (SWI) of the Canada Border Services Agency. 

Regulated energy-using products imported into Canada or shipped between provinces must bear an Energy Efficiency Verification Mark from a certification body (there is an exemption for CFL and some general service lamps and an alternative for external power supplies). An energy efficiency verification mark indicates that the energy performance of the product has been verified. 

The certification body must be accredited for energy efficiency verification by the Standards Council of Canada. Under some provincial laws, a province can issue a provincial label that indicates that the product meets the provincial energy efficiency levels. NRCan accepts provincial labels as verification marks if the provincial energy efficiency standards are equivalent to, or exceed, the federal standards.

The EnerGuide label is mandatory for:

• clothes dryers

• clothes washers (including integrated washer-dryers)

• dishwashers

• freezers

• electric ranges, cooktops, and ovens

• refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and wine chillers

• room air conditioners

 The EnerGuide label example

The ENERGY STAR symbol is a consumer icon in the Canadian marketplace. It instantly identifies products that have qualified as high efficiency. ENERGY STAR Canada is a voluntary partnership between the Government of Canada and industry to make high efficiency products readily available and visible to Canadians.

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