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Efficient Residential Lighting in Poland: An Innovative IFC/GEF Project
Stewart BoyleInternational Institute for Energy Conservation - Europe (IIEC-Europe) 1 & 2 Purley Place, London N1 1QA, UK Marc Ledbetter Batelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory 500 N.E. Multnomah Ave., Suite 650, Portland, Oregon, 97232, USA Russell Sturm International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) 750 First Street, N.E. Suite 940, Washington, DC, 20002, USA Abstract In order to reduce emissions of CO_2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by Poland's energy sector and to offset some of the need for supply-side investments to accommodate possible future demand growth, the international Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) has worked closely with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to develop a Global Environment Facility (GEF) project. The project, approved by the GEF in December 1994, will fund a private-sector-led program to develop the Polish market for highly efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). The project is designed to stimulate the Polish market for energy-efficient residential lighting, and to strengthen indigenous manufacturing capacity for efficient lighting. The US$5 million (ZL130 billion) project will achieve these two goals through an innovative combination of direct manufacturer subsidies, consumer and lighting professional education, and utility demand-side management (DSM) programs. The project will use these three tools to achieve the direct replacement of 1.15 million incandescent lamps with CFLs over an eighteen month period, encompassing two "lighting seasons" in the Polish market. While the benefits of these lamp replacements are significant, the program is conceived as a market stimulator whose total benefit will be measured in terms of advancing the growth of the Polish market for efficient lighting by at least five years. if successful, the project could be replicated in other eastern European countries.
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