In this issue we provide:
- An introduction to the position paper produced by lites.asia identifying the constraints which are limiting regional governments’ efforts to improve efficient lighting.
- Feedback from the IEC TC34 panel meetings in Portsmouth, UK.
- A summary of outcomes from the recent lites.asia workshop in Manila and the APEC National Lighting Design Centres workshop in Thailand.
- Signposting to the recently issued IEA 4E SSL Annex voluntary quality and performance tiers for street lighting.
We also continue the series of special features on national standards and labelling programmes from around the region with a feature on Indonesia.
lites.asia regional position paper on the current status, opportunities and constraints on efficient lighting in Asia
The lites.asia group have recently completed a regional position paper to be used at the national level, or for submission to regional and international bodies, to stimulate efforts to accelerate the move to more efficient lighting. The paper identifies:
- The potential energy and cost savings, and the associated reductions in emissions, and other benefits, that are possible with a continued move to more efficient lighting in the region.
- The current policies targeting the improvement of lighting efficiency of countries in the region and the opportunities to accelerate the transition to more efficient lighting.
- The physical, technical and human resources constraints that are limiting the progress of countries in achieving their policy goals.
- Proposals that may assist countries in delivering higher efficiency lighting and yielding maximum benefits without hampering national economic and social development goals or other international commitments.
Major proposals from the position paper include:
- Continuation of lites.asia as a regional forum of policy makers and technical specialists from the region to:
- Continue sharing information with a view to potential harmonisation;
- Support ongoing participation in IEC by national delegates;
- Identify regionally appropriate operating conditions and performance criteria to be proposed to the IEC.
- Approaching the ASEAN Joint Sectoral Committee for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (JSCEEE) and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Sub-Sector Network (EEC-SSN) to work with lites.asia to:
- Develop and agree to regional harmonised lighting energy efficiency performance standards;
- Share information and participate in the IEC (through national delegates).
- Seeking a funding mechanism to facilitate staff exchange, round-robin testing and technical support for test laboratories in collaboration with the Global Efficient Lighting Centre (GELC) in Beijing.
- Developing a regional body that can deliver training in monitoring, verification and enforcement capacity, possibly as an extension of lites.asia and/or in cooperation with ASEAN JSCEEE/EEC-SSN.
- Supporting industry transition through:
- Acceptance by international community that tiers of performance are necessary and no ‘one size fits all’ approach to lamp performance is appropriate as some countries will initially need lower stepping stones as their industry develops;
- Support for technological development of industry, again potentially by seeking funding for the GELC to provide technical service provision.
- Establishing a regional donor coordination group, possibly working with lites.asia, ASEAN and/or the UNEP en.lighten initiative to deliver country appropriate solutions, but within a regional umbrella strategy.
Feedback from IEC TC34 panel meetings in Portsmouth
The two items of significance to lites.asia members discussed at the recent IEC PRESCO meetings in Portsmouth, UK in October 2013 concerned the:
- Revision of IEC 60969, Self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting services - Performance requirements.
- Technical specification defining performance limits for CFLs.
Revision of IEC 60969
The Committee Draft for Vote (CDV) of IEC 60969 Ed 2, Self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting services - Performance requirements (34/1701/CDV) was published on 1 November 2013 and is scheduled to close on 7 February 2014. However, as the closing date for voting is approximately one week after the IEC project team meetings being held in Berlin in January 2014, this could possibly lead to a six month delay in publication of the standard should it be voted positive. To address this it was agreed that:
- Members intending to make comments should provide these to the project team convenor directly, i.e. to Owen Manley at omanley@lightingcouncil.com.au.
- The project team would meet on 31 January 2014 in Berlin, Germany to evaluate the comments in anticipation that the CDV would be voted positive.
- The formal vote and comments received by central office by 7 February 2014 and the 31 January 2014 project team recommendations would be fully considered at the PRESCO meeting on 31 March 2014 in Dresden, Germany. It is hoped that agreement will be given at this meeting to the publication of a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) rather than rather than it being referred to a further project team meeting in June 2014 and PRESCO again in October 2014.
IEC members intending to make comments on 34/1701/CDV, should advise as soon as possible and provide comments by Friday 3 January 2014 for evaluation by the project team in Berlin. Please note that even if you forward comments to Owen Manley directly, each national committee will still need to register its vote and provide the same comments to the IEC central office by 7 February 2014.
lites.asia members who have questions on the CDV, are encouraged to contact as soon as possible for consideration of any intended comment. If there are a significant number of questions, lites.asia will consider hosting a webinar to allow these to be discussed and clarified in the larger forum.
Technical specification defining performance limits for CFLs
A New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) has been formally submitted to the IEC for a Technical Specification, Self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting services - performance limits. As lites.asia members will know, this specifies a number of performance limits that can be applied to self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps.
The publication of the NWIP will occur shortly and be open for a two month vote/comment period. lites.asia will notify members once it is available. lites.asia members are therefore asked to consider whether they are able to provide a expert to take part in the technical specification development process should the NWIP be taken forward. Members wishing to discuss this, should contact lites.asia at .
Manila lites.asia meeting summary
The eighth lites.asia workshop, and associated workshop for Philippine stakeholders, was held in Manila between 2 and 4 October 2013 with 45 representatives from 18 countries attending. Just some of the items covered in the workshop included:
- Updates on international standards from the IEC and elsewhere.
- A special session on street lighting, including a general overview of the issues and the standards, regulations and general approaches taken in a number of participating countries.
- The presentation of a regional position paper to be used to encourage the development of regional resources and infrastructure to assist in the transformation to more efficient lighting in participating countries.
- A session from our hosts on the state of lighting (and other) regulation in the Philippines, with particular focus on the extended producer responsibility programme recently introduced to manage lighting waste.
The full meeting programme, report and presentations are available here.
APEC National Lighting Design Centres workshop
The energy used in the operation of buildings contributes to almost 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and electric lighting accounts for 20-25% of overall buildings energy use. As such, best-practice lighting strategies and technologies represent one of most effective near-term opportunities for energy efficiency and greenhouse gas mitigation.
A recent APEC workshop, Meeting of Minds: Translating Lighting Design Research into Practice, held in Bangkok, Thailand on 5-6 September 2013, sought to explore the role of lighting design centres in facilitating the translation of lighting design research into practice and in accelerating the broader adoption of best-practice technologies, with the long-term objective of establishing a design centre in Thailand and other APEC economies.
The workshop identified a number of areas of common interest, such as adaptive lighting controls for LEDs, task-ambient lighting systems, daylighting in the tropics and daylight harvesting. In addition, the 40 participants present from 12 APEC countries proposed a strategy and next steps towards establishing national lighting design centres.
For more information, click here to visit the workshop website or click here to read the two page workshop summary.
IEA 4E SSL Annex quality and performance tiers for street lighting
The IEA 4E SSL Annex has recently issued voluntary quality and performance tiers for street lighting. These performance tiers allow policy makers and regulators around the world to select internationally developed performance requirements for street lighting that are appropriate to local conditions. The document currently contains levels of performance (Tiers 1 and 2) with an expected update to include a third tier in 2014. The newly published street lighting material adds to an existing suite of quality and performance tiers for:
- Non-directional Lamps for Indoor Residential Applications
- Directional Lamps for Indoor Residential Applications
- Downlight Luminaires
The street lighting performance tiers have been developed through the combined work of twenty technical experts from the SSL Annex’s nine member countries: Australia, Denmark, France, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States of America; and expert member country China.
Dates for your Diary
CIE 2014: Lighting Quality and Energy Efficiency
23-26 April 2014 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Special Focus: Lighting Standards and Labels in Indonesia
Continuing our series of special features on national standards and labelling programmes from around the region, in this issue we are pleased to provide highlights on some of the many initiatives Indonesia is taking on lighting. More details can be found in the Indonesia section of the National Standards and Labelling pages on the lites.asia website.
BACKGROUND
The government of Indonesia is currently strengthening existing CFL promotional programs. Standard and Labelling (S&L) policy for CFLs has been promoted since 2011 and is now being reviewed prior to enforcement. Energy efficiency S&L for other products is now being prepared and will be released in the near future.
Indonesia’s National Energy Conservation Master Plan (2005) - RIKEN (Rencana Induk Konservasi Energi Nasional) states that Indonesia’s goal is to decrease energy intensity by around 1% per year on average until 2025. As explained in the National Energy Management Blueprint - PEN (2006), the goal of RIKEN is to realize this energy saving potential through energy efficiency and conservation measures. The action plan to achieve this objective contains several elements of relevance to lighting including:
- Mandatory energy conservation of government office buildings.
- Mandatory energy management for major energy consumers.
- Promoting energy performance contract business model (ESCO).
- Energy manager and auditor certification.
- Energy standard and labelling program.
- Public awareness activities and capacity building.
- Law No. 30 Year 2007 on Energy: Encouraged the implementation of renewable energy and energy conservation in all sectors
- Government Regulation No. 70 Year 2009 on Energy Conservation: Introduced mandatory implementation of energy management for certain energy consumers (≥ 6,000 Ton Oil Equivalent) and other measures to promote energy efficiency in all sectors.
- President Regulation No. 5 Year 2006 on National Energy Policy: Set framework for directing efforts to achieve security of energy supply in the country.
- Instruction President. No. 2 Year 2008 on Energy and Water Efficiency (Revised by Instruction President No. 13/2011 on Energy and Water Efficiency): Provided instructions to all Goverment entities for the introduction of energy and water saving initiatives.
- Ministerial Regulation of Ministry Energy and Mineral Resources No. 06/2011 on Energy Efficiency Labeling for CFL: Implemented a mandatory standard and label for CFL.
LIGHTING PHASE-OUT
Although Indonesia promotes efficient technologies replacing the inefficient ones using policies and regulations related to energy conservation, including in lighting with S&L for CFLs, there is no specific target of phasing out inefficient lighting.
TEST METHOD AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Standard Development Process
Responsibility for the development of the National Standards of Indonesia (SNI) rests with the National Standardisation Agency of Indonesia (BSN), which draws on technical committees and technical sub-committees from the relevant Government ministries to draft the standard. The Standardisation Society of Indonesia (MASTAN), an independent non-profit organisation of almost 3,000 members representing regulators, industry, consumers, infrastructure, institutions and experts, is involved in consultation and e-balloting in the final step of the SNI development.
The standards development process is summarised diagrammatically below and takes an average of one year to complete:
Test Method Standards
Indonesia is a full member of IEC, with the National Standardization Agency of Indonesia (BSN) operating as the National Committee. They are full (P) members of TC34 (Lamps and Related Equipment) and SC34A (Lamps). Indonesia promotes the adoption of international standards, such as ISO and IEC, in revising existing and developing new National Standards of Indonesia (SNI) and promotes participation in international standards development.
The standard in Indonesia is basicly voluntary unless regulated by Government. Safety standards will be the first to be regulated as mandatory. Performance standards will be the next. However, the whole performance requirements may not necessarily be regulated. Indonesia adopted test methods from the IEC standards for the performance requirements to measure some performance requirements that are regulated. For example, CFLs are regulated only in the aspects of energy efficiency and life time and the test methods that allow the measurement of these are adopted from SNI IEC 60969:2009, Self-ballasted lamps for general lighting services - Performance requirements.
Performance Standards
As mentioned before, performance standards in Indonesia are still generally voluntarily implemented. However, minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) may be considered for implementation independently from, or complementarily with, a label for appliances and equipment. In the case of lighting, minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) have already been introduced in the CFL standard and label regulation. For other products, discussions have been conducted between Government and stakeholders for MEPS implementation of electric motors and air conditioners.
LABELS
Mandatory
The Ministerial Regulation No 6/2011 on Energy Efficiency Labeling on CFLs was issued in April 2011 and is now being reviewed to make it smoothly enforced. This regulation mandates that all CFLs must carry the new energy efficiency label and meet the minimum performance specified for lifetime and energy efficiency. To qualify for the label, manufacturers/importers must issue a Declaration of Conformity stating that their product complies with the regulations and submit it to the Directorate General of New-Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation (DGNREEC) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
Voluntary
SNI 04-6958-2003, Household and similar electrical appliances - Energy rating labels, provides for an energy label. To date, the only lighting product to which this has been applied is fluorescent ballasts.
Example of Indonesian energy efficiency label applicable for voluntary or mandatory labeling schemes:
ENFORCEMENT OF REGULATIONS
Technical regulation is through the Indonesian regulators (with the National Standardization Agency of Indonesia (BSN) as the Notification Body and enquiry point). Enforcement will be conducted by Ministry of Trade with support from the technical regulator (i.e: Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources for energy standard and label).
TESTING CAPACITY
The National Accreditation Body of Indonesia (KAN) awards accreditation to certification bodies and third party Conformity Assessment Bodies are involved in certification, inspection, testing and calibration.
The Testing Facilities have been developed since 2009, and by 2012 there were two testing laboratories – P3TKEBT laboratory of Ministry Energy and Mineral Resources and B4T laboratory of Ministry of Industry. These are accredited for CFL Energy Performance testing based on IEC 60969. In order to boost the labeling adoption by CFL business players (producers and importers), the Goverment of Indonesia has also appointed four other laboratories – B2TE-BPPT, BPMB-Ministry of Trade, Baristand Surabaya – Ministry of Industry, and PT. Sucofindo (state owned company) – as offical laboratories to conduct CFL energy efficiency and performance testing. These four laboratories have already passed the proficiency test through round robin testing and are mandated to be accredited within two years of their appointment by the government.
The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) is a government institution under the coordination of the Ministry of Research and Technology which has the task of carrying out government duties in the field of assessment and application of technology.
The Energy Technology Centre (B2TE) of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) is one of the leading centres of energy technology development. Its objective is to encourage the growth of the energy industry and the implementation of energy technologies that are efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly for solving national problems. B2TE laboratory is also being prepared to be accredited for Electronics Ballast test.
OTHER MEASURES TO STIMULATE LIGHTING EFFICIENCY
Additional measures that have been put in place to stimulate lighting efficiency include:
- Awareness Raising and Information
- Building Energy Codes
- Mandatory Energy Conservation of Government Office Buildings
- Energy Efficient Lighting Program in the Residential Sector
- State-owned Energy Service Company (ESCO)