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Brazil Regulates High Energy Efficiency For
Electric Motors
BRASILIA - Brazil on Wednesday became the
seventh in the world to regulate high energy
efficiency for all the three-phase induction
electric motors to be produced in the
country.
The electricity to be saved thanks to the
high efficiency regulation is calculated to
be 1.58 terawatts a year or equivalent to 45
million U.S. dollars, according to the
country's federal power utility Eletrobras.
Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, the
Republic of Korea and the United States
already regulated their electric motors for
high-efficiency standards after mandatory
values were established in 2002 for
worldwide minimum efficiency for electric
motors.
Eletrobras said that the new regulation
would affect from 70 percent to 80 percent
of the electric motors produced in Brazil
which has an annual production capacity of
1.1 million units.
The new regulation was worked out by
Eletrobras, the Brazilian National Institute
of Metrology and the Ministry of Energy and
Mines under the National Energy Conservation
Program, which in December 2005 set forth a
four-year high-efficiency program.
The program provided a grace period of six
months to commercialize high-efficiency
electric motors in the country.
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