Lists of low-efficiency equipment subject to elimination and low-efficiency generating sets banned from development and application roadmaps

Source: International Energy Agency
Last updated: 28 August 2025


The list of low-efficiency equipment subject to elimination includes:


a) Home appliances: Compact fluorescent lamps, electronic ballasts for fluorescent lamps, electromagnetic ballasts for fluorescent lamps, linear tubular fluorescent lamps, storage water heaters, infrared hobs, induction hubs, LED lamps, non-ducted air conditioners, clothes washing machines for household use, television sets, electric cookers, electric fans, refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers.


b) Office and commercial equipment: Computer monitors, copiers, printers, notebook computers, desktop computers, and commercial refrigerated cabinets.


c) Industrial equipment: Three-phase asynchronous squirrel cage electrical motors, distribution transformers, LED road and street lighting luminaires, and industrial boilers.

The list for specific application of coal-fired and gas-fired power generation units in low-efficiency thermal power plants not permitted to build new ones includes:

a) Failing to approve investment policies for factories coal-fired thermal power generation, gas with lower energy efficiency than efficiency regulations corresponding to the power range of the generating unit specified in the Annex Annex II enclosed with this Decision.

b) Failing to allow the operation of the generating unit by coal and gas with low efficiency at the time of commencement of commercial operation performance corresponding to each capacity range of the specified unit in Appendix II enclosed with this Decision.

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