ENERLIN: Energy Efficient Residential Lighting Initiative

With the European Climate Change Programme (ECCP), the European Community and individual Member States are looking for cost-effective measures to reduce CO2 emissions and combat climate change. The ECCP has since discovered, with stakeholders, cost-effective actions that contribute to CO2 emission reductions.

The ECCP identified residential lighting as an important area. To achieve considerable savings in this sector, a coherent strategy is required to transform the lighting market. The overall project objective of Enerlin is to substantially increase the efficiency of residential lighting in a number of Member States and Candidate Countries, through increased penetration of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) in the residential sector. Energy saved from increasing the use of CFLs in households by can be as high as 11 TeraWatt hours (TWh) per annum, corresponding with 1.2 Megatonnes (Mtn) less of greenhouse gas per annum.

The main target groups for this project are: National Energy Agencies, Energy utilities, Lighting manufacturers, Consumer defence associations, Individual consumers, Lamp and luminary retailers, Policy makers, Architects and Civil Engineers. The consortium work is focussed on better promotion of CFLs for residential use. The main outputs from the project will be the creation of a new European CFL-Quality Charter, the design of attractive CFL promotional campaigns, the creation of CFL quality criteria and comprehensive databases.

For more information visit:

www.enerlin.enea.it/partner.htm