Policy, Programs and Implementation

How Thailand Washed Away Wasteful Lighting(IAEEL 1-2/00)

CFL Improved Electric Supply (IAEEL 1-2/00)

Torchieres turning the corner (IAEEL 1-2/00)

World«s largest order of LED traffic lights (IAEEL 3-4/97)

Furure Bulb Competition Reissued (IAEEL 3-4/97)

Time to Retire Edison's Old Bulb? (IAEEL 2/97) Come up with an alternative to the old 60-W lamp that consumes 30 percent less energy and lasts three times as long!

DElight: A step towards understanding home lighting (IAEEL 2/97) Usage patterns, attitudes and the savings potential for home lighting in UK, Sweden, and Germany are being investigated.

Green Lights Investments Are Earning Interest (IAEEL 4/96)The US Environmental Protection Agency's Green Lights Program is paying dividends to its appr. 2300 participants - and to society as a whole.

Cooperative procurement on improved GLS lamp (IAEEL 1/96) A lamp with a performance somewhere between a CFL and an incandescent is needed on the market. This is the message of a group of energy agencies within the International Energy Agency's (IEA) framework on cooperative technology procurement.

Large-scale GEF program in Poland (IAEEL 3-4/95) Although Poland already produces considerable quantities of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), most are exported, and only a few are sold on the Polish market.

Hands on CFLs in Austria (IAEEL 3-4/95) Austrian electric utilities and CFL manufacturers have prepared a box containing lamps for residential customers, who can borrow the box to test commercially available CFLs installed in their homes.

Nepal's Tourists Reduce the Load (IAEEL 1/95) Despite its enormous hydroelectric potential, Nepal will be running out of electricity supply capacity within a few years' time. Tourist hotel lighting has been identified as a key area for action.

Czech-ing out the CFL market (IAEEL 2/94) Last May, CEZ (the Czech Power Utility) and the Energy Agency of the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade sponsored a program aimed at marketing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in the Czech Republic.

Leasing the light in Germany (IAEEL 2/94) The concept of leasing programs has reached Germany, marketed by municipal utilities as "Light-Contracting". A small fashion boutique in the city of Kassel is the first in the country to test the concept.

Promotional program for Dutch retailers (IAEEL 2/94) This spring, three Dutch electric utilities and NOVEM, the Netherlands Agency for Energy and the Environment, introduced a program called the Domestic Energy Advisor (Spaarstroomadviseur) in cooperation with the Dutch Electric Retailers Union.

Rebates that Shook the Market (IAEEL 1/94) A $5 utility rebate can lower the retail price of a CFL by more than double that amount-if the incentive is shifted from consumers to manufacturers. At the same time, administrative costs are lowered to a minimum.

Brazilian Utilities: Households in Focus (IAEEL 1/94) Residential lighting is being viewed with increased interest by Brazil's large electric utilities. Guest writer Gilberto de Martino Jannuzzi reports on three pilot programs and the country's first full-scale residential lighting DSM program.

Scottish billsavers (IAEEL 3/93) Billsavers is a pilot project targeted at low-income households in Edinburgh, Scotland. The aim of the program is to assess the potential for developing a small business to promote the use of energy-efficient domestic appliances and lighting by these households.

Growing Green Lights (IAEEL 3/93) The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Lights program is growing at a steady pace. Green Lights is a voluntary program that aims at getting the US industry, public agencies, universities, etc., committed to energy-efficient lighting.

Rivalry Hampers Bombay Project (IAEEL 2/93) Animosity among organizations has crippled the utilization of efficient lighting technologies that could ease the load on India's groaning power generation system.

Best again! (IAEEL 2/93) A year ago the world's most successful CFL program (in terms of customer participation rates) was a lease-sale program on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, ran by the French national utility Electricité de France (EDF) (see IAEEL 2/92). EDF has made it to the top again.

Massive programs get the Dutch market moving (IAEEL 1/93) Managers in Dutch firms often claim that decisions regarding energy-efficient lighting systems are made strictly on an economic basis. In reality, however, non-economic factors also play a very important role.

The World Bank Moves Towards Mexican CFL Loan (IAEEL 2/92) ILUMEX is the World Bank's multi-million-dollar showcase demonstration of how using CFLs in developing countries is a way of delivering energy services while saving money and achieving environmental benefits.

A Caribbean success story (IAEEL 2/92) When the French Environment Protection and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) and the electric utility on the island of Guadeloupe launched a CFL rebate program, 37% of all households responded almost instantly, buying an average of 8 energy-efficient lamps each.

German giant explores its demand-side resources (IAEEL 2/92) The German electric utility RWE Energie AG will invest DM 100 million (appr. US$ 65 million) in residential energy-efficiency measures over a three-year period. Although this is probably a German breakthrough for least-cost planning, energy-efficient lighting is not part of the program.

"Nutzlicht": Useful Light in Rottweil (IAEEL 2/92) One of Germany's most innovative electric utilities, the municipal utility in the small town of Rottweil (with 50.000 inhabitants), has developed a new service concept called "Useful Light" (Nutzlicht).

Big business sees the light (IAEEL 1/92) Green Lights is an innovative programme sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that encourages major US corporations to install energy-efficient lighting technologies.

Holland turns the tide (IAEEL 1/92) Dutch utilities together with their residential and commercial customers are planning to invest almost 900 million dollars in energy-efficient lighting in the next ten years. But the ambitious goal of 3,5 CFLs per household probably won't be reached by 1995 as planned.

Developing Software for Successful Programmes (IAEEL 1/92) Uppsala Energy supplies electricity to about 70 000 households. Together with its bills, the company will send out discount vouchers that will entitle consumers to purchase up to six CFLs from any of the retailers in the town with whom Uppsala Energi has an agreement for distribution of the lamps.