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Energy Efficient Lighting Resources Available from CLASP
The Collaborative Labelling and Standards Program (CLASP), has recently launched web resources for global monitoring, verification and enforcement (MV&E) practitioners featuring the en.lighten Efficient Lighting Toolkit. According to CLASP, MV&E frameworks and activities are critical to safeguarding the credibility of standards and labeling programs and obtaining anticipated energy savings. In fact, non-compliance with appliance energy efficiency policies results in a loss of anywhere between 10-15% of expected energy savings.
As there is only a limited amount of guidance and resources available for policymakers and practitioners with regard to MV&E international best practices, CLASP recently launched the MV&E Publication Library to provide rapid and direct access to technical and policy information. A key resource in this library in the en.lighten ”Achieving the Global Transition to Energy Efficient Lighting Toolkit. The Toolkit features a specific section on ensuring product availability and conformance which provides information about market surveillance, compliance schemes and testing capacities in order to increase the range of complaint products and to ensure the success of policies that aim at transforming the market to efficient lighting.
Additionally, in a new discussion paper prepared in collaboration with the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee), “Estimating potential additional energy savings from upcoming revisions to existing regulations under the ecodesign and energy labelling directives”, CLASP has identified an additional 40-70 terawatt hours (TWh) per year by 2030 from eleven existing ecodesign and energy labelling regulations covering seven product groups, including residential lighting.
The discussion paper has been written as” a contribution to the evidence base for the reviews of – and to help prioritise efforts on – energy related product policy in the EU.” The paper estimates the potential increase in energy savings from changes to the EU’s ecodesign and energy labelling regulations.
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