High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!MEPS (Minimum Energy Performance Standard) is a specification containing a number of performance requirements for an energy-using device, and that effectively limits the maximum amount of energy that may be consumed by a product in performing a specified task. A MEPS is usually made mandatory by a government energy efficiency body. It may include requirements not directly related to energy; this is to ensure that general performance and user satisfaction are not adversely affected by increasing energy efficiency. A MEPS generally requires use of a particular test procedure that specifies how performance is measured. In North America when addressing energy efficiency, a MEPS is sometimes referred to simply as a Standard , as in Co-operation on Labeling and Standards Programs . In Latin America when addressing energy efficiency, MEPS are sometimes referred to as Normas (translated as "Norms").