Energy Use of Central Heating Pumps, Appliance Efficiency at the Component Level
Because the energy consumption of one pump can be many thousands kWh per year the energy saving potential in the pump industry is often focused on larger pumps.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Paolo Bertoldi ยท Andrea Ricci Anibal de Almeida Editors
Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances and Lighting With 280 Figures and 155 Tables
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Dr. Paolo Bertoldi European Commission, DG TREN Rue de la Loi, 200 1049 Brussels Belgium Dr. Andrea Ricci ISIS Via Flaminia 21 00196 Rome Italy Prof. Anibal de Almeida University de Coimbra Dep. Eng. Electrotecnica 3030 Coimbra Portugal
ISBN 978-3-540-41482-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PubIication Data Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Energy efficiency in household appIiances and Iighting: with 155 tables / Paolo Bertoldi .. . ed. - Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo: Springer, 2001 ISBN 978-3-540-41482-7 ISBN 978-3-642-56531-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-56531-1 This work is subject to copyright. AII rights are reserved. whether the whole or part of the material is concerneoa-l:m:tireWlihr, e:pt:j lXltntirrltdq
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Content of the Voluntary Agreement
The threat of a climate change due to man-made emissions of green-house gases is an immense challenge to mankind. Politics seemed to have advanced only slowly for a long period of time. The climate summit conference in Kyoto however should tum out as a rather big step forward. The European Union for example promised a total 8% saving of COremmissions until the year 2012. A challenging task; for the politics of Member States, for industry and for all people whenever using energy. We have to admit that it is obviously rather difficult to change fundamentally the behaviour of the energy-users, the behaviour of people driving cars, heating houses or operating appliances. Maybe this is a deficit which should be more emphasised in the future. In any case, industry has to accept responsibility and the obligation to take all feasible measures to reduce energy consumption during the life cycle of their products. For the household appliance industry, this implies to focus on the product's phaseof-use. Major household appliances have a rather long life: up to twenty years. So it is not surprising that around 90% of their environmental impact occur during the actual phase of use. Various studies supply evidence for that. So the problems are obvious, the targets are well defined and the schedule to achieve these targets is urgent. The question is: how to achieve the targets efficiently and quickly? The answer of the household appliance industry has been: Use Voluntary Agreements (or as it is named today: negotiated Agreements). We were among the very first of all industry sectors to offer concrete and detailed proposals. First on a national basis in some countries, like Germany, and then on the European level. The first Agreement w
