Be ‘ErP-READY’ With Panasonic's New Energy Label Generator

24/08/2015

The ErP (Energy related Product) directive is set to change in September 2015 and Panasonic has developed the Energy Label Generator, an easy-to-use online tool to help installers comply with these new regulations. Effective from 26 September 2015, the European Union’s ErP regulations will require manufacturers to label individual products, and installers to label multi-technology systems. Panasonic’s new ErP Tool enables users to print out the relevant labels and supporting data-sheets for Panasonic equipment.

From September, all residential and commercial heating products must carry the European ErP energy efficiency labels, intended to assist consumers in their purchasing decisions, to help reduce private energy demand, and combat climate change. These labels will mark the grade of efficiency of each individual product. This label must be visible on all display merchandise. Heat pumps will be classified into nine efficiency categories, the highest being A++ to the significantly lower value appliances marked as ‘Category G’. For heat pumps providing heating at 55°C, they must be labelled as A, A+ or A++, with a minimum efficiency of 100%. For low temperature heat pumps, these systems must be working at an efficiency rate of 115% within the A+ or A++ category.

The ErP Directive not only requires manufacturers to label individual new products, but installers must also provide a datasheet and energy efficiency label for each product in the quotation for the client. If an installer is working with a multi-technology system, the Directive not only requires labelling of individual components such as the boiler, controls and heat pump, but it will also be compulsory to label the system as a whole, based on a total energy efficiency calculation.

To make it easy for installers to calculate a multi-system's energy efficiency and to obtain the appropriate ErP label, Panasonic’s new online tool automatically produces the system label once the installer has gone online and input the Panasonic product codes and data from other suppliers’ product fiche of the equipment being installed.

Panasonic will supply the energy label and data sheets for all its products affected by these regulations, which must be used when labelling its products. Official labelling will commence on the 26th September 2015, but a transitional period of six months will be granted.

For more information or to use Panasonic’s Energy Label Generator, please visit www.panasonicproclub.com.