If your idea of summer bliss involves cranking your AC down to Antarctica mode at 16°C, brace yourself for a surprise. The government is about to standardise your chill—literally.
Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal Khattar, in a lighter vein doubling as the newly appointed Temperature Tzar, announced that air conditioners will soon be legally restricted to a range of 20°C to 28°C.
“Regarding air conditioning standards, a new provision is being implemented soon. The temperature standardisation for ACs will be set between 20 degrees Celsius to 28 degrees Celsius, meaning we won’t be able to cool below 20 degrees Celsius or warm above 28 degrees Celsius,” Khattar said.
That means no more turning your room into a walk-in freezer or sauna.
Currently, many ACs on the market proudly offer settings from a frosty 16°C to a toasty 30°C. But those glory days of microclimate customisation could be numbered. Once the new regulation kicks in, your unit’s wild temperature dreams will be permanently grounded.
“This is a first-of-its-kind experiment, aiming to standardise temperature settings,” explained Khattar, who previously served as Haryana’s Chief Minister but now seems determined to manage the nation’s thermal equilibrium.
Officials insist this isn’t just a case of micromanaging your personal breeze. The initiative comes as a response to climate change, the sweltering surge in global temperatures, and our growing obsession with artificial coolness. It’s also designed to boost energy efficiency, flatten the infamous summer electricity demand spikes, and (wait for it) even lower your power bills—yes, your AC will now save the planet and your wallet.
“We have decided the minimum temperature of ACs will be fixed at 20 degrees Celsius and the maximum at 28 degrees Celsius to bring uniformity to air conditioning use and help reduce excessive power consumption due to extremely low cooling settings,” the minister told reporters.
Let’s not forget the groundwork laid by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), which in 2020 kindly suggested that all star-labelled rooms and car ACs should default to a breezy 24°C. Commercial spaces, being the overachievers they are, get a slight edge, with temperature settings allowed between 24°C and 25°C—just enough to keep suits from sweating and bed sheets from sticking.
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