As per new Government rule new AC will have 24 degrees as the default temperature. How will this affect new Ac buyers.
As per the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) mandate for every air conditioner to be sold in India now will have a default temperature of 24 degrees. This new mandate is a part of the new energy performance standards and basically means that when you switch on a new AC for the first time, the default temperature it will start at is 24 degrees.
BJP government and BEE, notified new energy performance standards for room air conditioners RACs on October 30, 2019, as per a statement by the power ministry.
Any AC that is star rating RACs, which are rated from 1 star to 5 stars based on their energy efficiencies and manufactured, commercially purchased or sold in India, will have default of temperature in the room air conditioners at 24 degrees Celsius, with effect from January 1, 2020”.
BEE told that the Default setting is the setting at which a machine comes from the factory. Because of this when machine is switched on then it will have a preset temperature of 24-degrees-Celsius.
This will be compulsorily for all that are sold in India under star labelled ratings from BEE and is applicable to all home ACs. BEE provides these ratings purely based on energy consumption and quality. As new regulations BEE star labelling is now mandatory for all ACs with a cooling capacity of up to 10,465 watts 2.97 tonne of refrigeration.
Why 24 degrees?
The reason 24 degrees has been selected is to save electricity. As per research, for every one degree we raise the temperature of the AC to, up to 6% electricity can be saved.
Currently the default temperature for AC’s in India use tp be 20 or 21 degrees. Because of increasing it to 24 degrees you are saving 18 to 24% electricity it is simple math.
When we set lower the temperature on our AC, the more electricity you consume.
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