Energy-Efficient Equipment

When looking to improve the efficiency of your operations, don't overlook the significant amounts of energy consumed by equipment

Off-the-Shelf Equipment for Commercial/Institutional Use

• Arc Welding
• Air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment
• Battery Chargers
• Boilers and Steam Distribution Systems
• Commercial Clothes Washers
  • List of models: Household-style commercial clothes washers
• Commercial Kitchen Equipment
  
  • Cooking Equipment
  • Automatic Ice Makers (Ice Machines)
  • List of models: Ice Makers
  • Refrigerated Vending Machines
  • Solid Door, Self Contained, Commercial Refrigerators and Freezers
  • Walk-in Commercial Refrigeration
  • Warewashing Equipment (Dishwashers, Pre-rinse spray valves)
  • List of models: Large Air Conditioners – 19 kW (65 000 Btu/h) to 70 kW (240 000 Btu/h)
  • List of models: Large Heat Pumps – 19 kW (65 000 Btu/h) to 70 kW (240 000 Btu/h)
  • List of models: Packaged Terminal Air Conditioners
  • List of models: Packaged Terminal Heat Pumps
• Electric Motors
• Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC)
• Lighting Products
  • List of models: Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts
  • List of models: General Service Fluorescent Lamps
  • High Bay Lighting
  • High-Intensity Discharge (HID) Lighting Systems
  • Pulse-Start Metal Halide Lighting
  • Traffic Signals
  • Exit Signs
• Pumps
• Transformers
• Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)
• Variable Frequency Drives (VFD)
  • VFD Video

Specialized Plug Load Equipment

• Consumer electronics
• Office equipment

Residential Equipment for Small Commercial/Institutional Use

• Appliances – major
• Cooling and ventilating equipment and controls
• Heating equipment and controls
• Lighting
• Windows, doors and skylights

Purchasing Information and Equipment Labelling

Energy-efficient purchasing practices make sense for any business. The ENERGY STAR^® symbol makes it easy to identify the most energy-efficient products in their class for a wide range of equipment categories. The ENERGY STAR^® Purchasing Tool Kit provides ways to address common purchasing barriers such as lack of information, first-cost bias and life-cycle cost-analysis requirements, as well as:

• ENERGY STAR specifications for each product
• sample procurement language for tenders and contracts
• formation resources on products

The EnerGuide label allows you to compare the energy consumption of a wide range of equipment.

Most of the energy consumed by commercial and institutional organizations is used to:

• Operate auxilliary equipment – devices that supply energy services to the major process technologies during their operation and that are common to most industries. Auxiliary equipment falls into five categories:
  • steam generation
  • permanent lighting
  • heating
  • ventilation and air conditioning
  • electric motors, including pumps, fans, compressors and conveyors
• Supply plug load – the electricity demand from all equipment that is plugged into electrical outlets in buildings (principally office equipment, consumer electronics and portable lighting)

Commercial/Institutional Secondary Energy Use End-Use, 2002
Source: Energy Use Data Handbook, Natural Resources Canada's Office of Energy Efficiency