Development and Reform Commission: Launching a Large-scale Campaign to Combat Energy Efficiency Void

For the current energy efficiency products, the original national energy efficiency is too low, the gap between the energy efficiency of the same energy efficiency products among enterprises is too large, and there is a problem of falsification of virtual standards in some companies, Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, attended the third session on June 13. China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Forum revealed that in the second half of the year, the National Development and Reform Commission will substantially increase the energy efficiency standards of a series of energy-saving products, strive to be on par with some of the high-end enterprise standards, and at the same time carry out special campaigns to crack down on energy efficiency.

The current national standard is old

It is understood that China's energy efficiency labeling system was first implemented on refrigerators. At present, almost all household appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, water heaters, and washing machines have been labeled with “China Energy Efficiency Labels”, which clearly records the power consumption of the appliances and Energy efficiency rating. However, with the impact of national energy saving subsidies on product sales becoming increasingly apparent, some problems are also exposed.

"On the one hand, the standard itself, some energy efficiency standards have been introduced for a long time, with the continuous progress of technology, can not reflect the level of energy efficiency in the industry." Xu Dinghua, director of the energy efficiency laboratory of the Institute of New Energy Environmental Measurement Institute of China Institute of Metrology, said At present, the enterprise standards of leading enterprises in some industries have far exceeded the national standards. For example, some tertiary energy efficiency products of high-end companies are even better than those of individual companies in terms of energy efficiency indicated by first-class energy efficiency. However, the indicator shows that the former is a third-level energy. Consumption, the latter is a level of energy consumption, consumers can not see the difference on the surface, if the national standard does not increase, it can not drive the overall industry.

The energy efficiency phenomenon is serious

Wu Ji, an associate researcher at the Institute of New Energy Environmental Measurement at the China Institute of Metrology, said that according to the results of the sample survey conducted by the Institute of Metrology for energy-saving subsidies, in order to be able to smoothly apply for energy-saving subsidies, the efficiency of the virtual standard is quite serious.

“Whether it can be included in the list of energy conservation subsidies has a very significant impact on the sales volume of the company’s products. Some companies’ energy efficiency is not up to the standard, but in order to be listed in the list of energy subsidies, a group of products with lower energy efficiency are specially produced to bid, and other products are selected. After the catalogue, the energy efficiency of the product is still not up to the standard, and the product can be sold by enjoying the national energy efficiency subsidies.” A long-term distributor of air conditioners even frankly stated.

Enterprise "self-test"

"The core problem is that corporate standards are higher than national standards, and the management of energy efficiency labels is based on self-inspection of enterprises. This has led to the existence of a series of chaos," said Ren, who has been working for a local appliance distributor for many years.

According to reports, China's "Energy Efficiency Labeling Management Measures", which was implemented in 2005, stipulates that the energy efficiency labeling system adopts the "self-declaration and filing of producers or importers, and the government departments strengthen supervision and management." Testing also does not impose rigid rules on whether or not the tester is a third party organization. Competent companies can conduct tests in corporate laboratories. Therefore, the energy efficiency label is in fact a "self-inspection" of the enterprise.

The new national standard will be introduced one after another

Hao Xin, deputy chief of the certification and accreditation department of the Certification and Accreditation Administration and Supervision Department, said that the phenomenon of virtual energy efficiency in the market can not be ignored. Only by effectively combating the efficiency of the virtual standard, can we ensure that the energy-saving subsidies policy is implemented, but also conducive to The healthy development of the entire electronics industry.

In this regard, Xie Zhenhua, deputy director also said that the National Development and Reform Commission will strengthen energy efficiency standards, logo construction, on the one hand accelerate the energy-consuming products of high energy consumption standards and energy consumption standards for mid-range product revisions, development work, formulate energy efficiency leader initiative; On the one hand, it conducts a wide range of spot checks across the country, cracks down on energy consumption behavior of imaginary standards, continues to expand the scope of certification for energy-saving products, and guides energy-saving consumption. Most importantly, this year, a series of new energy efficiency standards will be gradually increased.

Xu Dinghua of China Institute of Metrology believes that at present, the state implements energy efficiency subsidies for home appliances and other products, directly promoting the development of high-efficiency products, and the introduction of new energy efficiency standards will promote the further upgrade of energy efficiency of enterprises.