Documentation

Topten policy recommendations

Topten deduces its policy recommendations from our overview on the most energy efficient products in different product categories. The policy recommendations can be accessed from each product list and also downloaded as pdf:

Merged labelling for room heaters and coolers
(local space heaters, heat pumps, air conditioners, comfort fans)

Professional refrigerated storage cabinets
(incl. scientific & healthcare cabinets)

Tumble driers

Vacuum cleaners

Coffee machines Smartphones

Smartphones

Publications about Topten

Publications by Topten

Procurement and usage Recommendations

HACKS deliverables

All HACKS deliverables can be found here.

Topten ACT deliverables

All Topten ACT deliverables can be found here.

Main reports and discussion papers

Topten presentation at the EEDAL 2022 EEDAL Conference in Toulouse, June 2022:

  • Sophie Attali: Market Transformation for Heating and Cooling Equipment in Europe: using benchmark and advice to involve stakeholders. Paper and presentation.
  • Sophie Attali: The usefulness of sales data to understand energy stakes for appliances. Paper and presentation.
  • Eric Bush: Impact of rebate programmes: Swiss case studies. Paper and presentation.
  • Nadja Gross: Efficient Coffee Machines - European energy label for residential and commercial use. Paper and presentation.
  • Steffen Hepp, Maike Hepp: The first energy labels for professional cooling appliances - lessons learnt. Paper and presentation.
  • Hélène Rochat: Environmental Dumping of Comfort Fans in Europe. Paper and presentation.
  • Andrea Roscetti: Heating with Air Conditioners - fast and affordable transition towards carbon neutrality? Paper and presentation.

Topten presentation at the 2021 eceee Summer Study online, June 2021:

  • Arturo Alatrista Corrales: Moving the Latin American market towards energy efficient appliances. The case of Topten initiative. Paper.
  • Eric Bush: Effectiveness of Rebate Programmes: Swiss case studies. Paper and presentation.
  • Maike Hepp: Energy regulations: Transferring lessons from household to commercial appliances. Paper and presentation.
  • Hélène Rochat: Environmentally harmful dumping of inefficient comfort fans in the European Union. Paper and presentation.
  • Nadja Gross: Energy efficiency labels for residential and commercial coffee makers. Paper and presentation.
  • Sophie Attali: Heating and Cooling equipment: Fixing problems (sufficiency) and/or investing in a new equipment (efficiency). Paper and presentation.
  • Andrea Roscetti: Heating with Air Conditioners - fast and affordable transition towards carbon neutrality. Presentation.

Topten presentation at the EEDAL '17 conference in California (USA), September 2017:

  • Anette Michel: How has the European White Goods market changed in the past 10 years? Analysis based on sales data reveals constant improvements, contradictory trends, and big successes for a new technology. Paper and presentation.
  • Carlos Tanides: Topten: Moving with the times to continue delivering energy savings. Paper and presentation.

Topten presentation at the 2017 eceee Summer Study in France, June 2017:

  • Anette Michel: Monitoring the market with sales and data: Energy efficiency of refrigerators, washing machines and tumble driers in Europe, 2004-2015. Paper and presentation.

Topten as finalist at the EU Sustainable Energy Week Awards, 2017:

  • Video for being a finalist in the top three projects of the EU Sustainable Energy Week Awards (2017) in the cateogry "Consumer". Video.

Topten presentations at the EEDAL '15 conference in Lucerne, August 2015:

  • Anette Michel: Household refrigerators: Monitoring efficiency changes in Europe and Australia over the last 10 years. Paper and presentation.
  • Anette Michel: Monitoring the washing machines market in Europe. Paper and presentation.
  • Barbara Josephy: Cold wash – Tests on the washing performance. Paper and presentation.
  • Eric Bush: Heat Pump Tumble Driers: Market Development in Europe and MEPS in Switzerland. Paper and presentation.
  • Eva Geilinger: Commercial and Professional Refrigeration Products: Promoting Energy Efficiency with Legislation, Empowered Stakeholders and Rebates. Paper and presentation.
  • Eva Geilinger: Luminaire efficiency: what mandatory and voluntary labels achieve, and what they should achieve in the future. Paper and presentation.
  • Luting Huang: Top10 Sticker: A Sufficiency and Efficiency Purchase Guide in China. Paper and presentation.
  • Luting Huang: Study of Chinese New EES for Variable-Speed Air- conditioners, Washing Machines and Panel-TVs. Paper and presentation.
  • Edouard Toulouse: Lessons from a decade of efficient product market analysis. Paper and presentation.

Topten presentation at the 2015 eceee Summer Study in France, June 2015:

  • Barbara Josephy: Cold Wash - The cool and modern way to launder. Paper and presentation.

Topten presentations at the EEDAL '13 conference in Coimbra, September 2013:

  • Anette Michel: What is an energy efficient TV? Trying to find the best TV in China and in Europe. Paper and presentation.
  • Anette Michel: Systematic market monitoring: a pilot project on TVs demonstrates the value for policy design. Paper and presentation.
  • Barbara Josephy: Cold wash - Do prejudices impede high energy saving potentials? Paper and presentation.
  • Eric Bush and Christopher Granda: Heat Pump Tumble Driers: New EU Energy Label and Ecodesign requirements in Europe, MEPS in Switzerland, Initiatives in North America. Paper and presentation.
  • Eva Geilinger: Best available technology of plug-in refrigerated cabinets, beverage coolers and ice cream freezers and the challenges of measuring and comparing energy efficiency. Paper and presentation.
  • Eva Geilinger: Office Luminaires: Voluntary labels can pave the way to the next level in energy saving. Paper and presentation.

Topten presentations at the 2013 eceee Summer Study in France, June 2013:

Topten presentations at the EEDAL '11 conference in Copenhagen, May 2011:


Topten contributions to the 2011 eceee summer study in France, June 2011: