News welcome May 1st 2009 Brammer welcomes the European
Commission's agreement on draft
regulations for mandatory minimum
efficiency standards for industrial
electric motors. The new regulations,
which form part of the EuP Directive
entitled 'EcoDesign Requirements for
Energy-Using Products', are expected
to save UK industry £200m and at
least 1m tonnes of CO2 each year.
The proposed standards will
introduce a new IE efficiency grading
standard to replace the current
voluntary EFF labelling scheme.
Once ratified, the scheme is likely to
be introduced in three stages
between 2011 and 2017, covering
single-speed, three-phase, 50Hz or
50/60Hz, squirrel-cage induction
motors with rated voltages of up to
1kV and power outputs between
750W and 375kW. Applicable to
motors with two, four or six poles,
they will prohibit the sale of motors
below standard IE2 efficiency from
2011, allowing only highly efficient
IE3 motors for certain larger
applications from 2015 and for all
applications from 2017. IE2 motors
can be sold after 2015 providing they
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