Motor efficiency upgrades: Is it win-win or win-lose

摘要

Are you ready for the mandatory switch to IE2 motors in June? Evidence suggests up to 30% of OEMs may not be. And Robin Cowley of Baldor argues that it might even be prudent to look closely at IE3 motors in order to fend off competition from machine builders in the US. A seminal piece of legislation mandating minimum electric motor efficiency levels is scheduled to come into force across the EU in June 2011. It has enormous implications for machinery OEMs, with potentially serious consequences to sales and market share if attention is not paid immediately, says Baldor. The situation is made even more problematic by the USA's EISA minimum efficiency regulations, which came into force in December 2010. From feedback at exhibitions and from calls and visits Baldor believes that as much as a third of the Ell's OEMs are still either wholly or partially unaware that new general-purpose AC motors installed from June must meet a minimum efficiency of IE2. IE2 is equivalent to the previous CEMEP 'EFF1' standard.