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| Europe's lamp industry to have good light without wasting energy  Europe's lamp manufacturers have today published details of an initiative to phase-out the least efficient household lamps from the European market by 2015. According to industry calculations, this initiative would lead to a 60% reduction of CO2 emissions (23 Mega tons annually) from domestic lighting and savings of 7 billion euros or 63,000 GWh of electricity per year. Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs welcomed the initiative launched by the lamp industry.The Lamp Industry initiative comes after the Commission presented on October 2006 its Energy Efficiency Action Plan. The plan announced tougher energy performing standards for 14 groups of products, enlarged to 20 at the beginning of the year. Street, office and household lighting are among the products targeted. The so called "Eco-design" directive gives power to the Commission to set energy efficiency requirements after an economic and environmental assessment and the consultation of a "Stakeholders Forum". On 22 June, the Forum will meet to discuss the envisaged measures on street lighting. Also at the end of the month the Commission will launch the economic and environmental assessment for household lighting. The next breakthrough in the energy efficiency action plan will be the analysis of the National Energy Efficiency Action Plans that all Member States have to present before 1 July, as requested by the End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive. This legislative act establishes indicative targets for energy efficiency for Member States who must present national action plans with sound measures to achieve savings of on average 1% annually over the next 9 years (9% in 9 years). write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |