This paper examines the Australian appliance and equipment energy efficiency program; a codes and standards program. In 1992, the program expanded from product labelling to also include the concept of minimum energy performance standards; specified in legislation withdrawing the right to sell products not meeting those standards. The minimum standards program progressed slowly. After seven years, the first minimum standards commenced (applying to domestic refrigerators and electric storage water heaters) while others still await finalisation (for example, linear fluorescent lighting ballasts first mooted in 1993 may commence in 2002 or 2003).
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