Indonesia’s ADLIGHT, Advancing Indonesia’s Lighting Market to High Efficient Technologies, project was officially launched through inception meetings in Bogor (West Java) on 1st and 2nd September 2020. This three-year (2020-2023) project aims to reduce electricity demand and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by promoting increased use of high efficiency lighting technologies through the transformation of the national market. It is being implemented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral ...Read More
UN Environment Initiative Announces New Guidance on Lighting Energy Efficiency
Developing and emerging economies can phase out low-quality lighting from their markets with the help of the new model minimum energy performance Guidelines The model Guidelines could save consumers and businesses $18 billion and prevent 160 million tonnes of carbon emissions globally by 2030 Signify (the new company name of Philips Lighting), Natural Resources Defense Council, and more participated in the development process 21 May 2018 –At an event during the Energy Efficiency Global ...Read More
Philips Lighting delivers one billion LED lights as part of Global Lighting Challenge
*This is a United for Efficiency Partner Story November 16, 2017 First company to break through the one billion LED milestone says it is on track to meet commitment of two billion LED lamps and luminaires ahead of 2020 target Savings realized equivalent to the energy generated by 30 medium-sized coal-fired power stations and CO2 emissions from 12 million cars Philips Lighting calls on governments to commit to 100% ...Read More
U4E November Event Registration Now Open
Join us to network with senior officials, top business executives and civil society leaders! United for Efficiency is pleased to welcome you to a high-level conference on accelerating the global transition to energy-efficient products. UN Environment Executive Director Erik Solheim will lead off the event, which will feature senior government officials, top business executives, and civil society leaders. Throughout the day, participants will highlight progress on policies and programmes that ...Read More
U4E Webinar Reaches Global Audience
On 25 July, 2017, the Clean Energy Solutions Center, in partnership with UN Environment, hosted a webinar highlighting the findings of six new policy guides developed by United for Efficiency. The webinar, addressing indoor and outdoor lighting, room air conditioners, household refrigerators, electric motors and motor systems, and transformers, reached energy experts in over 70 countries around the world. Well over half of the world’s electricity is consumed by the products addressed in these ...Read More
IEA Annex Launches LED Testing Comparison
The IEA 4E Solid State Lighting Annex formally announces the launch of the 2017 Interlaboratory Comparison (IC 2017) of goniophotometer measurements. IC 2017 is open to all photometric labs that use goniophotometers for testing LED lighting products, and is organised primarily to compare goniophotometric measurements of LED luminaires and narrow-beam LED lamps. This new interlaboratory comparison will study the equivalence of different types of goniophotometers, e.g., far-field ...Read More
Global Lighting Challenge: 14 Billion Efficient Lighting Products Committed in Two Years
13 new companies have committed 6 billion products to advance efficient lighting. Beijing, June 6, 2017: Today, during an Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM8) side-event on efficient lighting, 13 companies announced new commitments to the Global Lighting Challenge (GLC) totaling nearly 6 billion LED lighting products. The GLC has now reached 14 billion high efficiency, high quality lighting products committed, surpassing its 10 billion light goal set at CEM6 two years ago. United for ...Read More
Southern African Countries Agree to Improve Energy Efficiency Policies
On 23 March 2017 in Johannesburg, representatives from Southern African countries met to agree on the development of a regional energy efficiency roadmap. With support from the United for Efficiency Partnership, the countries decided to take the first step in transforming their markets to high-efficiency lighting, appliances and products such as air conditioners. This will unlock significant benefits, including savings for consumers in the order of $2 billion a year. Southern African ...Read More
United for Efficiency Taskforces Take Next Steps in Development of Policy Guides
To support national and regional initiatives in advancing energy-efficient lighting, appliances and equipment, United for Efficiency has established five expert taskforces to develop best practice strategy and policy recommendations. These five taskforces have held a total of 10 meetings to define the type of strategy and policies they recommend. The strategies and policies will become the foundation for guides containing content such as regulations and performance standards, financial ...Read More
Peruvians Trained on Lighting Compliance Testing
Peruvian experts attended a training workshop on lighting compliance at the Global Efficient Lighting Centre in Beijing, from 2 – 4 November, 2016. The training workshop’s objective was to strengthen the capacity of Peruvian lamp testing laboratories to produce reliable test results and measure gains in energy efficiency from specific innovations or techniques. The training was implemented as an activity under the UN Environment “Lighting Market Transformation in Peru” funded by the Global ...Read More
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