Appliances – Energy Consumption of Major Household Appliances Shipped in Canada – Trends for 1990-2003

In an ongoing effort to improve the monitoring of trends in Canadian energy use‚ the Office of Energy Efficiency (OEE) proposed an annual data collection arrangement with members of the Canadian Appliance Manufacturers Association (CAMA) in 1996‚ as part of the National Energy Use Database (NEUD) initiative. Under the arrangement‚ key CAMA members agreed to provide their annual Canadian appliance shipment data‚ by model‚ for the six major household appliance categories – refrigerators‚ freezers‚ electric ranges‚ dishwashers‚ clothes washers and electric clothes dryers.

The report entitled Energy Consumption of Major Household Appliances Shipped in Canada – Trends for 1990-2003‚ December 2005 details the results of the analysis on the estimated shipment-weighted average unit energy consumption‚ in kilowatt hours per year‚ of the six major household appliance categories shipped in Canada between 1990 and 2003. It also provides data on the annual distribution of shipments by unit-energy consumption range for the six types of appliances during the same period.