Since Energy Ministers agreed to the Decision Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) – Household Refrigerators and Freezers in November 2017, the Standards Australia Committee EL-060 made several sets of small changes to some factors in the draft AS/NZS 4474:2018 standard. This affected the anticipated outcomes of models’ star ratings calculated using the star rating algorithm that was proposed in the Decision RIS.
This paper sets out the approach that will be used to convert energy measured under the current test standard AS/NZS 4474.1:2017 to estimate the likely energy consumption under the International Electrotechnical Commission 62552-3 test standard. The methodology set out in this paper will form the basis on which the GEMS Regulator and the New Zealand Regulator will assess whether currently registered household refrigerating appliances will meet new MEPS levels that are anticipated to come into force on 1 January 2021.
