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Appliance Energy Labelling and Efficiency Standards in Europe

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Development with Sustainable Use of Electricity

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASHT,volume 56))

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This paper summarises electric appliance usage, efficiencies, and technical saving potentials in Europe and examines the role of minimum energy efficiency standards as a policy mechanism to improve appliance energy performance. The main geographical focus is on the states of the European Union but details of programmes in Switzerland and Eastern Europe are also presented. This paper is an updated version of a paper `Appliance Energy Standards in Europe’ which was published in Energy and Buildings, Vol 26 (1), in 1997.

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  1. Department of Buildings and Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

    Jørgen S. Nørgård

  2. University of Mining and Metallurgy and The Polish Foundation for Energy Efficiency, Kraków, Poland

    Adam Gula

  3. Department of Electronical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Aníbal T. De Almeida

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Waide, P. (1998). Appliance Energy Labelling and Efficiency Standards in Europe. In: Nørgård, J.S., Gula, A., De Almeida, A.T. (eds) Development with Sustainable Use of Electricity. NATO ASI Series, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5092-7_13

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