The New Official Mexican Standard was published on June 2, 2025, in the Official Gazette of the Federation. This standard establishes energy efficiency requirements, test methods, and marking requirements for single-phase, air-cooled, squirrel-cage induction AC electric motors with a rated power between 0.180 kW and 2.238 kW.

The new standard represents a significant update to its previous version from 2004, incorporating stricter energy efficiency standards. This update responds to recent technological advances and its main purpose is to reduce the electrical energy consumption of single-phase electric motors, which translates into both economic savings for users and environmental benefits.

These motors have extensive applications in various sectors: residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial. They are used in equipment such as water pumps, compressors, washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, fans, tortilla machines, unloading silos, grinding machines, drills, among others.

WHOM DOES THIS IMPACT?

The direct impact is on electric motor manufacturers and importers, retailers and distributors, industrial, agricultural, and commercial users, residential consumers, and verification and certification bodies.

CONCLUSION:

NOM-014-ENER-2025 is a high-impact standard because it requires a significant technical transformation in a widespread and cross-cutting technology, directly affects the economic stakeholders involved in the life cycle of these motors and generates positive cumulative effects in terms of energy efficiency, economic savings, and environmental sustainability.