Deprecated energy efficient attributes

What Google requires

The certification attribute, not the legacy fields

Since April 2025, the legacy energy-efficiency attributes — energy_efficiency_class, min_energy_efficiency_class and max_energy_efficiency_class — are available only for products targeting Switzerland, Norway or the United Kingdom. EU products that require a graphical energy label use the certification attribute with EPREL data. Google reports continued use of the old fields for an EU product as Deprecated energy efficient attributes.

What Google does

The energy data is treated as out of date

An energy class on the deprecated fields marks the data as stale, and in EU categories the label is expected to come through certification, so the old submission no longer carries it cleanly. The product still serves, but the energy signal is discounted.

How to fix it by hand

Move the label onto certification

• Carry the energy label through the certification attribute (an EPREL number) rather than the legacy energy-class fields.
• Retire energy_efficiency_class and its min and max companions for EU markets.
• Note that the attribute is still valid for Switzerland, Norway and the UK.

What FeedMender checks today

One check applies, read from the scanner's registry

energy_class_legacy reads only the energy_efficiency_class attribute, and only on products it heuristically recognises as an energy-labelled category, flagging the legacy value where an EU country needs a certification instead.

• energy_class_legacyat risk

What the scan does not check today: the min_energy_efficiency_class and max_energy_efficiency_class attributes, products it does not recognise as an energy category, and Switzerland, Norway and the UK — where energy_efficiency_class is still valid and the check does not fire.

The quicker way

Let the scan spot the old fields

Run the free scan and it lists the recognised energy products still using energy_efficiency_class for an EU market. The scan to identify errors is free and shows every finding before you pay anything. You only pay for the fix.

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