Lighting Crossroads:

Major Lighting Programs & Initiatives

• Businesses, Products & Services
• Case Studies
• Energy & Global Climate Change
• Energy Efficiency Around the World
• Fun With Lighting
• Hot Topics: Torchiere Fixtures
• Industry & Professional Organizations
• Lighting Design & Analysis Tools
• Lighting Publications & Other Information Sources
• Major Lighting Programs & Initiatives
• Market Data
• News Groups & Discussion Groups
• Research Centers
• Solar Photovoltaic Lighting

• Other Lists Of Lighting Web Sites

Caltrans(USA)

Caltrans (California Department of Transport) Light Emitting Diode (LED) Program. Documents and studies on LEDs in traffic signals at intersections, ramp meters, railroad
crossings, etc.

Efficient Lighting Initiative (ELI). Ê

IFC project to Accelerate the growth of the market for high-efficient lighting products and services through targeted strategies in Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Peru, Philippines, and South Africa.

Lightswitch,

A UK Energy Saving Trust, program

Nordlicht(Germany)

Nordlicht (northern lights) is a public campaign for climate protection through energy saving and traffic reduction. With a strategy of Participative Social Marketing the Program seeks to stimulate citizen activity concerning global warming.

Novem(The Netherlands)

Novem, the Netherlands Agency for Energy and the Environment, manages a large number of national and international programmes financed by the Dutch government and the European Union. The main objective of these programmes is to save energy and improve the environment. Novem operates essentially as an intermediary between the Dutch and European activities and the Dutch business community.

Nutek Lighting Procurements(Sweden)

Since 1990, the Department of Energy Efficiency at the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK) has been operating an innovative technology procurement program in accordance with Swedish Government policy on the restructuring of Sweden's energy system. The program is focused on innovative technology procurement, demonstration activities, and market introduction strategies to increase the market shares of new, improved energy-efficient technologies. In the area of lighting, these include lighting technologies and applications for homes, offices, schools, industry, hospitals and outdoor installations.

US Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Buildings & Green Lights Program, (USA)

U.S. Department of Energy«s Federal Energy Management Program(USA)

Information related to lighting retrofits for government facilities is located in various parts of this site.

The Joule-Thermie Program(Europe)

The prime objective of the European Commission's JOULE-THERMIE Programme is to improve energy security in the broadest sense - i.e. ensuring durable and reliable energy services at affordable costs and conditions - and, recognising that a major concern today is the protection of the environment, to reduce the impact of the production and use of energy, in particular CO2 emissions. JOULE-THERMIE merges both R&D and Demonstration actions within one programme - which had previously been carried out separately within the JOULE and THERMIE Programmes - and introduces a new activity in support of an overall energy R&D strategy in the inter-disciplinary area of energy-environment-economy.