The Lamp Section members of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) announce a joint industry commitment to work with public policies to provide more energy-efficient lighting for the U.S. market within a decade. Proposals are increasing at the international, state and local levels that will eliminate certain general-service incandescent lamps in the marketplace.

 

NEMA is calling on the U.S. government to devise a federal solution because it is an issue of national importance. By calling on the U.S. government it will avoid confusion in the marketplace.

 

Standards must be set to eliminate the least efficient products from the market; they will be based on the following six principles.

 

--The market transformation must be orderly and target as a starting point the least efficient medium screw base A-line incandescent lamps from 40 through 100 watts in widespread use today.

--Performance standards must be used to accomplish the transformation.

--Performance standards must be technology-neutral.

--The market transformation will take up to a decade.

--The set of A-line incandescent lamps to be addressed includes clear, frost, soft white and enhanced spectrum. Performance standards will be        needed for each of these types.

--The market transformation should begin with strategies that will save the most energy.

 

States and localities should follow these strategies that will save the most energy, in the absence of a federal solution.

 

Committed to providing high quality, energy-efficient, and safe lighting products to the public the member companies in the Lamp Section are listed below:

 

EYE Lighting International of N.A., Inc.

Feit Electric Company, Inc.

GE Consumer & Industrial, Lighting

Halco Lighting Corporation

Light Sources, Inc.

Litetronics International, Inc.

OSRAM SYLVANIA

Philips Lighting Company

Ruud Lighting Inc.

SLi Lighting

Technical Consumer Products, Inc.

Ushio America, Inc.

Venture Lighting

Welch Allyn, Inc.

Westinghouse Lighting Corporation

 

The domestic lamp industry represents about $3 billion in lamp shipments covering commercial, industrial, institutional, residential, automotive, and specialty lighting markets.

 

For more information, visit www.nema.org

 

SOURCE National Electrical Manufacturers Association

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Nicole Camiola
New Equipment Digest
Online Content Editor