Compliance Guides – Page 19

Table fans and wall-mounted fans are the everyday cooling workhorses of Indian homes, kitchens, shops, and small workplaces — compact, inexpensive, and sold in enormous volumes every summer. Precisely because they are so numerous and run for long hours, their energy efficiency matters at a national scale, and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) includes

Induction cooking has moved from a niche appliance to a mainstream fixture in Indian kitchens, prized for its speed, safety, and precise control. Because an induction hob converts electricity directly into heat in the cookware, it is inherently more efficient than many alternatives — but efficiency still varies significantly between models, and that variation is

Boilers are among the largest energy consumers in Indian industry. Whether they raise steam for a textile mill, a food-processing plant, a chemical works, or a district heating system, they burn fuel continuously, and even a few percentage points of thermal efficiency translate into very large fuel bills and emissions over a boiler’s working life.

Walk into any grocery store, convenience shop, restaurant, or petrol-pump kiosk in India and you will see them: glass-fronted coolers stocked with chilled soft drinks, juices, water, and dairy. These commercial beverage coolers — often called visi coolers — run around the clock, every day of the year, frequently in hot ambient conditions and with

The evaporative air cooler — the desert cooler that has cooled Indian homes and workplaces for generations — is one of the most energy-efficient ways to beat the heat in dry climates, drawing a fraction of the power an air conditioner needs. Yet efficiency still varies widely between models, and until recently buyers had no