What are ErP boilers?

31 Jul 2015

The new legislation known as the Energy-related Products directive is designed to lower energy consumption and ensure that end users are more aware of the efficiency levels of the products they use on a day to day basis with the help of clearly displayed energy labels. It is a new regulation that is set and enforced by the European Union to improve the efficiency of all heating and hot water products produced by manufacturers in the UK.

The new regulation is set to come in to force on the 26th September 2015, it will state minimum performance criteria that relate to efficiency and emissions limits for combination boilers, water heater, boilers and other heating appliances that have an output of up to 400kW that must be adhered to by manufacturers.

A Europe-wide energy labelling requirement will be enforced by Energy Labelling regulations that state water heaters, combination boilers, boilers, and other heating products situated in a domestic and light commercial premises of up to 70kW output will need to be clearly ErP labelled stating all the relevant efficiency information. Find bellow an example of the new ErP label explaining the curtail efficiency information.

What is ERP?

Worcester boilers is paving the way having recently released their new range of ErP rated boilers, bringing them fully in line with the new legislation from the European Union.

As they are one of the largest leading manufacturers of boilers in the UK, Worcester has been one of the first companies to re-design and produce a whole new range of ErP compliant, A-rated boilers. They have a wide selection to offer and definitely something to suit your needs, find bellow all the ErP rated Combi, Regular and System boilers available to purchase.

Worcester Combi Boilers (ERP):