Are you installing or servicing a banned system?

Household refrigerators and air conditioners sold in Australia that fall within the scope of the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS) regulation must be registered with the GEMS Regulator.

In addition, household refrigerators offered for supply must display an energy rating label and meet the minimum energy performance standards (MEPS). Most air conditioners are also required to display an energy rating label when offered for supply and are also required to meet MEPS. But not all systems operate as claimed by their suppliers and this has resulted in several high-profile air conditioning and refrigeration systems being banned or suspended from further supply.

This is where technicians come in. Your customers rely on you for advice in choosing the appliance that best meets their needs and energy efficiency is often one of the factors. Energy rating labels are great indicators for this. But recently some air conditioning and refrigeration systems haven’t come up to scratch in relation to their energy efficiency. Below is a list of models suspended or banned by the GEMS Regulator.



If you come across products that are on the list of cancellations and are being offered for supply or have been recently installed, visit www.energyrating.gov.au or email E3.Compliance@environment.gov.au to read more.

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