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Assessment of Verification Testing Capacity in the APEC Region and Identification of Cost Effective Options for Collaboration Assessment of Verification Testing Capacity in the APEC Region and Identification of Cost Effective Options for Collaboration APEC Expert Group on Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EGEE&C) November 2014 APEC Project: EWG 12/2013A Produced by Chris Evans S2E4 Limited Gloucester House, 399 Silbury Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 2AH, UK For Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat 35 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119616 Tel: (65) 68919 600 Fax: (65) 68919 690 Email: [email protected] Website: www.apec.org © 2014 APEC Secretariat APEC#214-RE-01.22 2 Contents Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 6 Preface ................................................................................................................................. 8 Part 1: Assessment of Verification Testing Capacity in the APEC Region ..................... 9 1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 9 1.2 Methodology ................................................................................................................ 9 1.2.1 Prioritising the consumer products to focus on ...................................................... 9 1.2.2 Locating the testing organizations to be surveyed ................................................11 1.2.2.1 Identifying test laboratories that were already known to MV&E officials in the APEC economies ..........................................................................................................11 1.2.2.2 Identifying test laboratories from other information sources ...............................11 1.2.3 Surveys ................................................................................................................12 1.2.3.1 Questionnaire for MV&E officials .......................................................................12 1.2.3.2 Questionnaire for test laboratories .....................................................................12 1.2.3.3 Identification of additional test laboratories ........................................................14 1. 3 Survey results ............................................................................................................14 1.3.1 Overall survey results ...........................................................................................14 1.3.2 Questionnaire survey results ................................................................................20 1.3.3 Discussion of the results of the surveys ................................................................21 1.3.4 Comparison of APEC economies’ verification testing needs with available national testing capacity .............................................................................................................23 Part 2: Cost effective options for verification testing ......................................................25 2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................25 2.2 Identifying testing options and approaches for governments to reduce costs for verification testing .............................................................................................................26 2.2.1 Risk analysis ........................................................................................................26 2.2.2 Avoidance of testing .............................................................................................26 2.2.3Transfer of cost .....................................................................................................26 2.2.4a Use of lower cost (screening) test procedures ....................................................27 2.2.4b Use of lower cost (witness) test procedures ........................................................27 2.2.5 Share the cost between authorities .......................................................................28 2.3 Review of benefit and costs of regional collaboration ..................................................29 2.3.1 Existing operating models of regional collaboration or networks ...........................32 2.3.1.1 PROSAFE Joint Actions ....................................................................................32 2.3.1.2 Administrative Co-operation Working Group (ADCOs).......................................33 2.3.1.3 ECOPLIANT and EEPLIANT .............................................................................34 2.3.1.4 Nordsyn .............................................................................................................34 3 2.3.1.5 E3 compliance program .....................................................................................35 2.3.1.6 International Consumer Research and Testing (ICRT) ......................................36 2.4 Policy options for a framework for policymakers in the APEC region to adopt in order to conduct verification testing cost effectively and collaboratively .........................................37 Concluding remarks ...........................................................................................................42 Appendix 1: APEC S&L Matrix ..........................................................................................44 Appendix 2: Survey to locate Energy Efficiency Compliance Testing Organizations ...47 Appendix 3: Example email sent to MV&E officials .........................................................50 Appendix 4: Survey of Energy Efficiency Laboratory Testing Capacity in the APEC Region .................................................................................................................................51 Appendix 5: Contact details of approximately 1000 laboratories that were sent an email containing a link the main questionnaire ...............................................................59 Appendix 6: Summary sheet of the 250 labs identified ................................................. 145 Appendix 7: Terms of Reference ..................................................................................... 152 Figures Figure 1: Response rates from test laboratories ...................................................................13 Figure 2: Number of test laboratories located in each APEC economy .................................14 Figure 3: Total number of test labs located for each type of product (room air conditioners, lighting, refrigerators, TVs, clothes washers, computers) ......................................................15 Figure 4: Comparative indication of the types of test labs found in the APEC economies .....15 Figure 4a: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Australia ...................................16 Figure 4b: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Canada.....................................16 Figure 4c: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Chile .........................................16 Figure 4d: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – China ........................................16 Figure 4e: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Hong Kong, China ....................17 Figure 4f: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Chinese Taipei ..........................17 Figure 4g: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Indonesia ..................................17 Figure 4h: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Japan .......................................17 Figure 4i: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Korea .........................................18 Figure 4j: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Malaysia ....................................18 Figure 4k: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Mexico ......................................18 Figure 4l: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – New Zealand .............................18 Figure 4m: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – the Philippines .........................19 Figure 4n: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Singapore .................................19 Figure 4o: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Thailand ...................................19 Figure 4p: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – the USA ....................................19 Figure 4q: Breakdown of Figure 4 by individual economy – Viet Nam ..................................20 Figure 5: Proportion of responding test laboratories that undertake energy efficiency testing .............................................................................................................................................20 Figure 6: Proportion of responding laboratories that were publically owned..........................20 Figure 7: Report languages available from the responding test laboratories .........................21 Figure 8a: Expansion plans ..................................................................................................21 Figure 8b: Expansion plans in more detail ............................................................................21 4 Figure 9: Benefits of collaborative MV&E Testing .................................................................32 Tables Table 1: Hierarchy of products with S&L in place, within the APEC economies ....................10 Table 2: Comparison of APEC economies’ verification testing needs with available national testing capacity ....................................................................................................................24
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