Electricity efficiency and the home

For Consumers

Look for the energy efficiency label to help you select household electrical equipment purchases.

Energy labelling is designed to make the energy efficiency of a product a key feature in its selection. Household electrical equipment that must have energy labels includes:

air conditioners
refrigerating appliances
dishwashers
clothes washers
clothes dryers.

Storage water heaters are subject to minimum energy performance standards.

The ESV approves the equipment mentioned above so that it may be supplied or offered for sale. It also conducts compliance audits of retail showrooms to ensure that relevant equipment is registered and correctly labelled for energy efficiency. Check testing of equipment is also undertaken to verify and ensure that the claims made by manufacturers and importers on the energy label are correct.

More information

Further information about the categories of equipment and the energy label itself maybe be obtained from http://www.energyrating.gov.au.