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The AGO and E3 Committee works in partnership with stakeholder groups to introduce programs that encourage market transformation by promoting highly efficient equipment or by identifying selected energy efficient products through appliance labelling. The Energy Efficiency Team is developing voluntary programs to accelerate acceptance of 'smart buying' when consumers choose new electric motors systems, airconditioning systems, commercial and home lighting and other major capital investment items which are heavy electricity users.
The aim is to demonstrate that energy efficient products and systems are wise to purchase and install - not only because they consume less energy and thus decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted - but because they in most every case will result in whole-of-life cost savings due to lower electricity charges. This page focuses on motors and lighting.
Our current focus in this area is electric motor repair. A new Code of Rewinding Practice will ensure that motor efficiency is retained in the repair process. The Energy Efficiency Team has worked in conjunction with the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, to develop Motor Solutions Online.
Further information on motors can also be found in the Community Partnership Team's Local Government Action 
Energy Sheet on Motors, Drives, Pumps and Fans is available for download as a PDF file (right click on the link and "Save Target As").
Like all machines, electric motors wear out or fail at some stage. When this happens, a choice between replacement or rewinding (repairing) needs to be made. If the motor is rewound, losses in motor efficiency may be experienced. Efficiency losses can generally be avoided through the use of proper materials and quality repair methods. A poorly conducted rewind could result in a loss of several percentage points in efficiency, while with a first-class job, the difference will not be measurable.
As part of Motor Solutions Online, the Australasian Chapter of the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) has signed an agreement with the Australian Greenhouse Office to develop improved standards for maintaining the energy efficiency of repaired motors. The Australasian Chapter of the EASA is affiliated with the Electrical Apparatus Service Association, Inc., an international organisation of more than 2,500 electromechanical sales and service firms in 32 countries. Australian EASA members, who operate factories all over Australia, rewind about 15,000 electric motors a year - from airconditioning units to massive industrial 150 kilowatt motors.
The Australasian Chapter of the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) has signed an agreement with the Australian Greenhouse Office. Under the agreement, the 70-member strong Australasian Chapter is developing a Code of Rewinding Practice to ensure that its members will repair electric motors to the highest technical standards.
The expected one percent improvement in efficiency of rewound motors will save Australian industry 12,000 MWh of electricity annually after the first year. As more motors are rewound to the new standards, this saving will eventually increase to as much as 120,000 MWh per year. In carbon dioxide equivalents that's the amount of greenhouse gases put out by 15,000 homes. EASA is also developing a training syllabus and training materials, to explain and complement the new Code of Rewinding Practice.
In the lead-up to implementing the Code of Rewinding Practice, EASA has conducted awareness seminars in five Australian capital cities, to ensure that its members have the equipment and knowledge to apply the most advanced engineering practices to their repair and maintenance work.
Further information on electric motor rewinding can be found on the Motor Solutions Online web site.
Energy Efficiency Team, working in with an industry advisory committee, has identified the appropriate scope for a lighting energy efficiency program.
Australian governments are committed to working with industry to reduce the overall greenhouse emissions from products like commercial lighting. Mandatory regulation plays an important role but so too do best practice initiatives voluntarily embraced by suppliers, installers and users.
In recent years the government has engaged in extensive discussions with the lighting industry, in relation to energy efficiency. These discussions resulted in agreement on minimum energy performance standards for fluorescent lighting ballasts. They also identified the desirability of a voluntary program specifically aimed at providing public information on the benefits of energy efficient lighting. Several such programs have been implemented overseas.
The AGO wants to assist the lighting industry to develop a voluntary scheme to improve lighting efficiency. In partnership with the lighting industry, the following process has been identified to lead the way to the implementation of a successful lighting energy efficiency program:
Global Warming - Cool it! - Lights
Managing energy in local government - workbooks (includes Lighting Overview, Office Lighting and Street Lighting)
General lighting information and advice
CADDET Energy Efficiency Newsletter 4/00 "Energy efficiency lighting" - contents
Lighting transformations, and educational institution web site for lighting research
Lighting organisations
Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia and New Zealand
International Commission on Illumination
International Association for Energy-Efficient Lighting (IAEEL)
Lighting Council Australia
This page last modified 27 June 2007
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