The ErP legislation and the new energy labels
The future of heating systems
Starting from 26 September 2015, in order to be placed on the market, heating and hot water production systems will have to comply with the ErP (Energy Related Products) regulations issued by the European Union. The ErP standards favor the eco-compatible design of products that consume energy from fossil fuels and have the aim of reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions, as well as providing consumers with transparent and homogeneous information on the energy efficiency of the appliances, favoring their comparison. Regulations N 811/2013 and 812/2013 provide for a specific energy labeling of appliances for heating and domestic hot water production. Regulations N 813/2013 and 814/2013 prescribe, among other things, the minimum energy efficiency and pollutant emissions requirements that manufacturers of equipment for heating and domestic hot water production must comply with. These regulations therefore raise energy efficiency standards, improving system performance and excluding less performing technologies from the market.
The energy label will be supplied by the manufacturer with the appliance and will represent concrete help for the consumer, allowing him to learn more about the characteristics of the system, acquire greater awareness of the energy savings allowed and make the best choice of what to buy. The energy label will provide information on the energy class of the product, on a scale between A++ and G, and on other additional notations, such as power and noise emissions.
The ErP legislation provides for two types of labelling: the former is supplied by the manufacturer together with the product for heating and/or domestic hot water production appliances the second for systems composed of several elements. In this second case, the label indicates the levels of energy efficiency that can be reached thanks to all the components used, allowing the score attributed to each appliance to increase and increasing the energy class of the system: it is therefore the task of whoever makes/installs the system to supply the consumer the correct explanatory label.
The ErP standards represent an opportunity to develop a market of highly efficient technologies, such as condensing, heat pumps, solar thermal, cogeneration and the integration of different energy sources in a single system. These technologies will have an impact on home consumption, approximately 80% of which is due to heating and the production of hot water, and are already being incentivized at a tax level today.
Junkers Bosch is already in line with the dictates of the ErP legislation, demonstrating the future orientation that has always distinguished the brand.
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