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New mandates but are they?
13 Plays1 month ago
Governments move at their own pace!!
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Upcoming Efficiency Mandates
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Baker Plbg
Yeah, I was scrolling, as many of us do these days, and came across an article about the U.S. Department of Energy mandating that new gas-fired water commercial water heating heaters meet a minimum thermal efficiency of 95 to 96. This um this nees necessitates condensate technology for higher efficiencies while further regulations in 2029 will mandate heat pumps for electric storage units. That's gonna be disaster.
High-Efficiency Installation Norms
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Baker Plbg
Anyway, the reason I tweaked my interest is because I was like, when is the last time I've installed a commercial ah water heating appliance that wasn't high efficient? i I can't think of when that happened.
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Baker Plbg
But they have said, i just, I mean, I looked up and and the mandate was for 2025. twenty twenty five that all of these commercial gas, that includes commercial gas boilers, water heating equipment, winter fits, and the like, which is interesting. i always thought that it was kind of like Europe was the where where the technology was developed, and then it came to the States and then to Canada, and this one appears to be it Canada was a bit of a testing ground for that because I honestly can't tell you the last time I did a ah high efficient or a low efficient atmospheric commercial
Continued Use of Old Technology
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Baker Plbg
hot water. Now they have, they still allow the atmospheric hot water tanks. I don't think they're willing, the government's not willing to piss everybody off at the same time.
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Baker Plbg
ah all the all the residents, so we still install lots of those.
Historical and Future Efficiency Mandates
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Baker Plbg
ah But I also found it interesting in December 12th of 2009, furnaces were mandated to be at least thermal efficiency. So the changes are coming.
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Baker Plbg
um i honestly can't say that I knew specifically that the a Canadian one was for the ah commercial heating heating space was 2025. But it makes sense.
00:02:13
Baker Plbg
but it makes sense Obviously the manufacturers are on top of this stuff and only provide the products that we can actually use. So interesting things afoot.
Regional Challenges with Heat Pump Adoption
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Baker Plbg
um The government continues to force the mandates, which I both understand and sort of
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Baker Plbg
don't.
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Baker Plbg
They are going in a crazy direction with these heat pumps and stuff. so We'll see how that goes. And maybe it's just because I live in such a unique part of the world where our weather is just so freaking cold. Anyway, those are my thoughts on IORs. Good luck out there installing those big badass boilers.
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Baker Plbg
Have a fabulous day.