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 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