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Building Buyer Strength for a Future Bulb: Developing a Functional Specification and Creating a Market for a Replacement Incandescent Lamp
Paul Davidson
BRE, Building Research Establishment, Garston, Watford, WD2 7JR, United Kingdom
Nils Borg
Borg& Co, Svevaägen 98, 4 tr, 113 50 Stockholm, Sweden
ABSTRACT
This paper describes a technology procurement pilot programme within the International Energy Agency?s (IEA) Implementing agreement for Demand-Side Management (DSM) technologies and procedures. The technology procurement dealt with in the paper aims at creating a strong enough demand pull to stimulate light source manufacturers to develop a low-cost, long-life energy-efficient replacement for the standard incandescent (GLS) lamp. Buyer groups in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and UK have been established. The lamp specified would be about 30 percent more efficient than a standard GLS lamp and last about three times as long. i.e. 3000 hours. Thus, the lamps would have an efficacy and a rated life somewhere between that of a GLS lamp and a screw-base CFL.
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