High Efficiency Residential Lighting
NEEP Facilitates Regional Collaboration to Transform the Lighting Market by 2020.
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While Northeast efficiency programs have been continuously achieving robust energy savings goals, the landscape around them continues to change.
NEEP's Northeast Residential Lighting Strategy is a roadmap that illustrates both lighting barriers and solutions.
This comprehensive document highlights the value of collaboration amongst stakeholders in order to achieve these essential efficiency gains by outlining both short and long term actions, along with associated milestones through 2020.
Recommendations include:
- Aggressively support CFLs to maintain residential lighting savings levels.
- Pursue alternative program and promotional approaches and/or markets to limit free-ridership concerns.
- Consider limited promotions of 2x efficient halogens given expected LED product availability
- Ramp-up promotion of ENERGY STAR LEDs.
- Deliver a clear and consistent message to consumers on efficient lighting choices.
- Support adoption of strong lighting efficeincy requirements in buidling energy codes and standards.
- Focus promotions on quality high efficiency lighting products.
- Develop and implement regional systems to track key product and market data to inform efficiency program design.
- Engage regulatory bodies early to reinforce need for continued engagement and to limit regulatory uncertainty.
- Implement a process to continue regional engagement on the lighting market.
History of the Development of the Strategy
In March 2010, NEEP invited a broad stakeholder group to its first Residential Lighting Workshop (Summit) in Boston aimed to identify and discuss issues related to the residential lighting market as it becomes transformed and the implications for energy efficiency program planning, design and evaluation.
As a result, NEEP ascertained that the Northeast efficiency programs required a strategy document that could address the needs and constraints laid out in 2010 by providing a roadmap for savings potentials still available in residential lighting. Project planning for a Residential Lighting Strategy (RLS) included creating a leadership advisory group comprised of various lighting stakeholders including efficiency program staff; lighting manufacturers, retailers, distributors; state and federal policy and regulatory interests; efficiency program evaluators; and related marketing interests. Their work and expert backgrounds would help define the elements required in a strategy that could be utilized in residential lighting program plans through 2020.
This work culminated in a second Residential Lighting Workshop held in June 2011 whose purpose was to gain additional feedback on the structure and elements of an RLS.
The following links are the primary outputs from the June 7th Residential Lighting Workshop held in Warwick, RI. These materials lay out in greater detail the specific elements and challenges to be addressed in an RLS, and discussion points/takeaways raised on this day. Still in process, the final document is expected to be completed by September 2011.
Northeast Residential Lighting Strategy - DRAFT Outline
Northeast Residential Lighting Workshop - Key Take-Aways
Northeast Residential Lighting Strategy - Advisory Committee
For more information on the Northeast Residential Lighting Strategy please contact Linda Malik, Residential Program Manager at lmalik@neep.org or 781-860-9177 x115.