Ministry for education and science of the Russian Federation/ UNDP/GEF Project 00070781.
“Standards and Labels for Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Russian Federation”
Brief Description
Energy capacity of Russian Federation economy (calculated on a base of purchasing power) is twice higher than in the USA, triple higher than in the EU and Japan.
Energy efficiency was included in a list of eight priority directions of future development of Russia by President. Russian energy strategy for the period up to 2020 includes improving energy efficiency as a main strategic aim. Energy efficiency standards and labels are tools for achieving the aim. Moreover energy efficiency is included in the State Policy Measures Programme by President’s order.
After a long working out and consultations in November 2009 State Duma enacted a new Federal Law #261 FZ “On Energy Conservation and on Improving Energy Efficiency and on Amending Special Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation ” of November 23 2009 (which cancels Federal Law “On Energy Efficiency” 1996). New Law enters requirements to turnover of energy consuming units and rules for disclosing information on their energy efficiency; however there is no mechanism for implementation these measures. Many regulation measures and under-law normative acts shall be elaborated and enforcement mechanisms shall be defined.
Though a range of standards in the field of energy efficiency for domestic appliance and energy consuming equipment has been was worked out and accepted as official technical standards (GOST Standards) since 1995 till 2001 (including energy efficiency standards for refrigerators, freezers and washing machines), all these standards have lost its mandatory character after Federal Law “On Technical Regulation” of 2002 was enacted. In accordance to this Law all national standards are applied on a voluntary base, excluding standards connected with protection of life, welfare, property of natural persons and legal entities, stare or municipal property. However there is no any real incentive for creation efficient system of voluntary standardization.
MINOBRNAUKA of RUSSIA, UNDP/GEF project aims to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in the Russian Federation through the facilitation of wide-scale market transformation towards energy efficient technical building equipment and household appliances. In the scale of Russia this very ambitious target will be approached through a phased introduction of energy efficiency standards and labeling. This envisaged to be achieved by four outcomes:
(1) improving the national legal and regulatory environment and institutional capacities to facilitate the introduction and wide-spread application of a comprehensive energy efficiency standards and labeling programme in Russia by starting it with the implementation of a full-fledged pilot programme in the Moscow region;
(2) developing energy efficiency S&L schemes and public procurement models, building the local verification and enforcement capacity and supporting the establishment of state-of-the-art compliance checking and certification systems and infrastructure in accordance with international best practices;
(3) supporting manufacturers and other supply-chain stakeholders and establishing public-private partnerships, voluntary agreements and joint strategies to make energy efficient products more competitive and affordable to the population;
(4) raising awareness of and providing access to information to targeted end users and buyers of equipment, including both household consumers and commercial buyers.
In the frameworks of the Project the following household appliance and engineering equipment shall be worked through:
a) household refrigirators and freezers;
b) household washing machines;
c) water pumps;
d) industrial conditioners and fans;
e) cooling units for central air conditioning systems.
In the frameworks of the Project we are interested in studying experience in the field of energy efficiency of Denmark; the main aim of this knowledge is mitigation of barriers in the mutual external trade.
Reaching the stated targets of the project is expected to contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions by 29.9 Mt until 2020 and by 123.6 Mt until 2030.
Moscow was selected as a pilot region.
Full project document is available here .
