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Highlights

Main activities

2000
- ELI Market Assessment Period started and was concluded on Fall, ELI Czech Republic work plan was drafted.
- Residential Market Survey was conducted as a part of Market Assessment.

2001
- As the first output of ELI activity, the street lighting manual for towns and municipalities was printed and distributed among 250 municipalities.
- A comprehensive countrywide CFL campaign was launched in the Czech Republic at the beginning of the 2001 lighting season (October).
- The Minister of the Environment of the CR, Mr. Milos Kuzvart, took the ELI program under his personal patronage.
- An agreement with producers of light sources (OSRAM, PHILIPS, GE Lighting) was concluded on cooperation within the framework of the ELI program, particularly on the residential campaign’s cooperation.
- Within the campaign three press conferences took place – the initial one familiarising journalists and the public with the ELI program and campaign itself, the press conference connected with the announcement of the designer competition results, and the press conference on the occasion of Minister of the Environment assuming patronage.
- Operation of the Czech national website www.uspornazarivka.cz was launched, providing information for consumers about energy-saving lighting and supplementing the ELI campaign’s activities.
- The ELI team assisted with preparation of the tender for the towns of Lovosice and Susice and drew up two additional feasibility studies and started preparation in another 23 towns.
- The Contest for designers of CFLs compatible luminaries was launched
- The educational program for basic school about efficient lighting was launched in cooperation with NGO TEREZA, more than 150 schools participated on the program
- Two all-day and four half-day seminars on public lighting were organised for representatives of towns and municipalities; one other seminar was determined for ESCos.

2002
- Evaluation of the ELI Residential Campaign (Phase I) resulted in the following figures:
- Sales of CFLs rose (for 2001 in comparison with 2000) depending on data source from 15 to 79%.
- Consumer awareness of CFLs benefits increased 4.6 times in comparison with pre-campaign surveys.
- The total GRP number of the ELI Residential Campaign reached 2150 (The GRP (Gross Rating Point) unit reflects the hit ratio with the target group of readers, listeners or viewers. One GRP point means addressing 1% of the population. This parameter originates from media monitoring.).
- The ELI social campaign had with 8 mil CZK invested the same impact as commercial 20 mil CZK campaign (thanks to social nature given to the campaign by ELI team and advertisement company REMMARK).
- Cooperation on the international “Lighting” conference culminated in the June in cooperation with the Czech Lighting Committee. ELI launched there an ESCO day for lighting installation companies. The conference was held on June 11-13, 2002 in Brno with more than 70 participating companies..
- The manual ” Interior Lighting – Practical Advice Not Only for Electricians” was printed and distributed in 5000 copies. ELI received a great response from professional community – there was indicated a great demand for such handbook
- The series of educational one-day seminars for electricians and lighting contractors thorough the Czech Republic was launched. In the one year period, there were nine seminars together with 250 participants.
- Almost all Czech lighting- and electro-installation companies (more than 300 contacts) were mailed with a questionnaire surveying their potential to be an ESCo. Selected companies were asked to participate in the ESCo training in late fall 2002.
- Other seminar for ESCo training was arranged a s accompanying event with international conference and exhibition EEBW2002 (Energy Efficiency Business Week).
- The ELI Streetlighting section was also part of international conference and exhibition EEBW2002. The event visited over 350 participants. Dozen of lighting manufacturers participated on the exhibition as well.
- Within the framework of the ELI streetlighting activity, feasibility studies for 11 cities whose representatives signed the Memorandum of Cooperation were finished.
- The Phase II of the national information CFL campaign started in December 2002. The full scale massive TV advertising part of the campaign filled TV broadcast during Christmas week. Other parts of the campaign has been following the TV advertising on January and February 2003.

2003
- The City of Teplice (40 th. inhabitants) signed Memorandum of Cooperation on preparation of the tender on ESCo, which will operate, maintain and retrofit the streetlighting system of the city. The preparation of tender documentation was finished at the end of March 2003.
- The Prague Electric Distribution Utility (PRe) signed Memorandum of Cooperation on the dissemination of the leaflet about CFLs advantages together with their invoice to the all residential and small commercial consumers. It means, among others, that PRe invested approximately 20000 USD to the print and distribution costs. This information about CFLs will reach at least 500 000 residential and 200 000 small commercial customers thorough direct mailing sponsored by PRe during year 2003.
- First stage of the pilot project in the Hlucin primary school has been finished. The implementing company, Beghelli-Elplast, lighting fixtures manufacturer, is going to finance this project on ESCo principles and they will multiply it in other cities and regions. There was also cooperation with OSRAM, a CFLs manufacturer.

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