These changes will help reduce the administrative burden for accredited providers and the ESC, and are summarised in Table 7. : Summary of space heating and cooling activity changes Current Proposed Regulations and Specifications VEEC Regulations difference Schedule Part Scenario Decommissioning Upgrade Mostly 5 5A(i) Ducted gas heater decreases High efficiency ducted Central electric resistance 5 6 5A(ii) Decrease gas heater heater No other central heating Mostly 20 5A(iii) installed decreases None, or heating or cooling as Heating as specified n/a 6 6A n/a specified by the department by the department None, or heating or cooling as Cooling as specified n/a 6 6B n/a specified by the department by the department 7 7A(i) Ducted air to air heat pump Increase Central electric resistance 8 7A(ii) High efficiency ducted Decrease 7 heater air to air heat pump No other central heating or n/a 7A(iii) n/a cooling installed 9A(i) Hardwired electric room heater Increase Gas or liquefied petroleum gas 9A(ii) room heater, or type of room Decrease Flued gas or liquefied heating 9 9 petroleum gas room space heater Plug in electric heater or wood fire heater, when this is used as 9A(iii) Increase the main form of heating a premises 10A(i) Hardwired electric room heater Increase Non-ducted air to air heat pump 10A(ii) Increase or room heater Plug in electric heater or wood 10A(iii) Increase fire heater High efficiency air to 10 10 air heat pump Refrigerative room air 10A(iv) conditioner and hardwired Increase electric room heater Refrigerative room air 10A(v) conditioner and gas or liquefied Decrease petroleum gas room heater Refrigerative air conditioner Increase (ducted) Ducted evaporative 23 23 23A cooler Refrigerative air conditioner Decrease (not ducted) 9 and 10 - replacing fixed electric heaters and other inefficient baseline technologies
These changes will help reduce the administrative burden for accredited providers and the ESC, and are summarised in Table 7. : Summary of space heating and cooling activity changes Current Regulations Proposed Regulations and Specifications VEEC difference Schedule Part Scenario Decommissioning Upgrade 5 5 5A(i) Ducted gas heater High efficiency ducted gas heater Mostly decreases 6 5A(ii) Central electric resistance heater Decrease 20 5A(iii) No other central heating installed Mostly decreases n/a 6 6A None, or heating or cooling as specified by the department Heating as specified by the department n/a n/a 6 6B None, or heating or cooling as specified by the department Cooling as specified by the department n/a 7 7 7A(i) Ducted air to air heat pump High efficiency ducted air to air heat pump Increase 8 7A(ii) Central electric resistance heater Decrease n/a 7A(iii) No other central heating or cooling installed n/a 9 9 9A(i) Hardwired electric room heater Flued gas or liquefied petroleum gas room space heater Increase 9A(ii) Gas or liquefied petroleum gas room heater, or type of room heating Decrease 9A(iii) Plug in electric heater or wood fire heater, when this is used as the main form of heating a premises Increase 10 10 10A(i) Hardwired electric room heater High efficiency air to air heat pump Increase 10A(ii) Non-ducted air to air heat pump or room heater Increase 10A(iii) Plug in electric heater or wood fire heater Increase 10A(iv) Refrigerative room air conditioner and hardwired electric room heater Increase 10A(v) Refrigerative room air conditioner and gas or liquefied petroleum gas room heater Decrease 23 23 23A Refrigerative air conditioner (ducted) Ducted evaporative cooler Increase Refrigerative air conditioner (not ducted) Decrease 9 and 10 - replacing fixed electric heaters and other inefficient baseline technologies
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