The Next Generation of ELI

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Introduction

The Efficient Lighting Initiative (ELI) is a $15 million program to reduce greenhouse gass emissions by increasing the use of energy-efficient lighting technologies in seven countries: Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Peru, the Philippines, and South Africa. ELI is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

ELI works with lighting manufacturers, electric utilities, the public sector, NGOs, and educational institutions to accelerate the growth of lighting markets in its seven target countries. ELI aims to have a sustainable, long-term impact, creating vibrant markets for energy-efficient lighting technologies.

ELI update, May 2003
As planned, ELI is entering its shut-down phase. ELI South Africa closed at the end of March 2003. The remaining programs - Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Argentina, Peru, and the Philippines – will complete formal operations managed by IFC during Autumn 2003.

Because ELI helped put in place many ongoing local lighting activities, the promotion of efficient lighting in the ELI countries will continue long after ELI shuts down! The ELI Country Overview shows how.

In addition, in response to a groundswell of demand from manufacturers, large consumers, and a variety of national programs emerging both within and outside the ELI countries, IFC is working with several international partners to transition to a self-sustaining lighting product quality certification program. This Next Generation of ELI will be built around the ELI logo and the over 150 products already carrying the ELI mark.

An independent evaluation of ELI is underway. The evaluators will continue to monitor the sustained market impacts of ELI after formal ELI country programs have concluded operations. IFC thanks the manufacturers, retailers, and other parties who have cooperated with the evaluators and ask that you continue this support in order to help maximize the learning benefits of the ELI experiment in market transformation.

For additional information, please contact Russell Sturm, ELI Global Manager, Environmental Finance Group, IFC, at rsturm@ifc.org.

ELI Country Overview

ELI is shutting down, but the vigorous promotion of efficient lighting will continue in the seven ELI countries: Argentina, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Peru, The Philippines, and South Africa.

Argentina

• The electric utility EDESUR will continue selling CFLs; other distribution companies are also expected to do so.
• IRAM will continue verifying that ELI-qualified products meet the ELI specifications
• The Efficient Lighting Building Award will continue to be offered, run either by COPIME (COnsejo Profesional de Ingenieros Mecánicos y Electricistas, Mechanical & Electrical Engineers Professional Association)or by the standards institute IRAM.
• Several hundred technicians who received training in energy-efficient lighting will put their training into practice.
• Teachers who attended FEU's education campaign run by FEU (Fundación Ecológica Universal, or Universal Ecology Foundation) will continue to teach about energy-efficient lighting.

For more information, please contact Mr. Alberto Arrigoni, Edesur, aarrigoni@edesur.com.ar

The Czech Republic

• CEEF (Commercializing Energy Efficiency Finance), a four-year, $90 million loan guarantee program funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and co-funded and implemented by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), will support local financial institutions financing energy efficiency projects. Streetlighting upgrades and commercial lighting projects are examples of eligible projects which may receive a guarantee of up to 50% of their commercial loan or lease.
• PRE (the Prague Electric Distribution Utility) and JCE (the South Bohemia Electric Distribution Utility) will continue to run CFLs promotional campaigns. Over the next seven months, PRE will distribute over 700 000 information leaflets about CFLs. They will also run a contest to motivate consumers to buy CFLs.
• OSRAM, a major CFLs manufacturer on the Czech market, is going to continue promoting their ELI certified CFLs. They will use ELI logo stickers on CFL boxes as well as in PR activities.
• BEGHELLI-ELPLAST, the Czech-Italian luminaire producer, plans to establish an ESCO division, to support energy efficient lighting project in the public and commercial sectosr, in cooperation with local electric utilities.
• In the framework of GreenLight, the European voluntary program which encourages private and public organizations to commit to reducing their lighting energy use, SEVEn, The Czech Energy Efficiency Center (and local implementor of ELI) will continue to disseminate information about energy efficiency lighting technologies available on the Czech market. The main target groups are commercial and industrial entities as well as public facilities and municipalities. Through GreenLight, SEVEn will continue to promote ELI-Qualified lighting products.

For more information, please contact, for ELI, Mr. Jaroslav Marousek, SEVEn, jaroslav.marousek@svn.cz and for CEEF: Mr. Martin Dasek, IFC, MDasek@ifc.org

Hungary

• The Hungarian Lighting Society will continue to use the curriculum and training materials for ESCOs and lighting professionals which they developed with ELI.
• Local television stations will continue to broadcast the ELI-funded information film about the use of CFLs in the residential sector and the popular ELI CFL advertising spot.
• The local NGOs who participated in the implementation of the ELI residential campaign will continue to use the educational materials developed for teaching schoolchildren about efficient lighting. The curriculum will also be available to other NGOs.
• For more information, please contact Mr. Elek Turda, EGI, turda@egi.hu.

Latvia

• Thanks to links made through ELI, the EU GreenLight program has taken root in Latvia, and will continue to promote efficient lighting retrofits in public and commercial buildings.
• CEEF (Commercializing Energy Efficiency Finance), a four-year, $90 million loan guarantee program funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), implemented by the IFC, will support local financial institutions financing energy efficiency projects. Streetlighting upgrades or ESCO lighting projects are examples of eligible projects, which may receive a guarantee of up to 50% of their commercial loan or lease.
• The local implementer for ELI in Latvia, SIA Ekodoma, will be offering training courses in efficient lighting on a commercial basis. The courses are designed for engineers from project design companies and installation companies, and for municipality staff.
• The Riga Technical University will continue to offer an efficient lighting module (which ELI designed) in its electrical engineering curriculum.
• Ekodoma, the local implementor for ELI in Latvia, will continue to provide assistance to municipalities interested in implementing streetlighting retrofits. On a contract basis, Ekodoma can perform lighting energy audits and prepare business plans or draft calls for tender for ESCO services.
• Continued use of the ELI logo in Latvia is under discussion.

For more information, please contact :

For ELI: Ms. Dagnija Blumberga, Ekodoma, at dagnija@btv.lv

For CEEF: Ms. Baiba Circene, IFC, BCircene@ifc.org

Peru

• The CFL promotion campaigns by the utilities Edelnor and Luz del Sur have sold approximately 80,000 ELI-certified CFLs over the past 28 months. The participating CFL manufacturers and distributors, as well as the distribution utilities of Lima, are interested in continuing these campaigns, and provincial utilities are also expected to join. Utility-based CFL sales will grow even higher when the government passes an anticipated bill which would allow the utilities to sell CFLs directly to their customers and collect the payments on the electric bill.
• Lighting manufacturers and distributors will continue to use and promote the ELI logo as a sign of product quality. The Peruvian Consumer Defense Association (Asociacion Peruana de Defensa del Consumidor – ASPEC) will continue to educate consumers on the meaning of the ELI logo, monitor compliance with ELI specification, and coordinate random quality testing.
• Universities will continue to teach efficient lighting courses which ELI helped design.
• The electrical distribution utilities and the government will continue developing efficient streetlighting for urban marginal, rural and remote populations. The new installations will use the ELI-sponsored Novaluz CFL luminaire, which is notable for its low cost and low consumption.
• Other smaller ELI activities will also continue, such as universities selling CFLs directly to their personnel, performing studies to retrofit lighting in university buildings and offices, and performing energy audits for local industries, institutions and businesses. Lighting manufacturers and distributors will cooperate with the universities.
• Finally, the recently-formed Peruvian Lighting Association (Asociación Peruana de Iluminación), which was started with support from ELI, will continue promoting efficient lighting in the country.

For more information, please contact Mr. Luis Haro, Edeldnor, lharo@edelnor.com.pe

The Philippines

• In the Philippines, ELI expects to follow through its market intervention strategies by allowing the Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) access to the ELI tools that were developed over the course of the three year country program for the UNDP-GEF Philippine Efficient Lighting Market Transformation (PELMAT) Project.
• The high-profile National Advisory Council for Energy Efficient Lighting (NACEEL) and the Philippine Lighting Industry Association (PLIA) will continue to push ELI's agenda of establishing and promoting Government Standards and Policies for Efficient Lighting through the next phase of the market transformation. The DOE, NACEEL and PLIA will not only seek the gradual alignment of national standards for lighting products with the voluntary technical specifications of ELI, but will also collaborate for the replication of massive lighting retrofit projects adopting the fundamental tools developed by the Development Bank of the Philippines, the DOE and ELI for its model ESCO transaction.
• These entities shall likewise champion the utility CFL leasing and efficient lighting programs designed by ELI and large utilities, MERALCO and CEPALCO, alongside continued regulatory reforms for demand-side management.
• With ELI's having built up the capacity of the DOE Lighting & Appliance Testing Laboratory (LATL, formerly FATL) through the last three years, the LATL is now set to provide the regional lighting market the sustainable infrastructure for ELI energy performance and product quality and safety testing of lighting products.
• Beyond the Philippine shores, ELI hopes to strengthen lighting manufacturer response in the Asia-Pacific region by developing working linkages with other UNDP-GEF efficient lighting programs in China, Viet Nam, and the ASEAN economies.

For more information, please contact Mr. Alexander DR Ablaza, Soluziona Philippines, aablaza@ph.soluziona.com

South Africa

South Africa

Status Notes for Web Site – South Africa

SCHOOLS Project

• The project’s phase 2 implementation, funded by ABB, is subject to continue pending the implementation agreement between Eskom & ABB. Phase 2 has a reaching target of +15,000 learners. This is envisaged to run till mid 2004. The implementing agency, specializing in Maths, Science and Technology schools projects, has vowed to include the efficient lighting programme in its future projects (funded by the private sector), in perpetual promotion of the energy efficiency concept.
• Parallel to it, will be incorporation of the ELI Schools project with the Eskom’s Demand Side Management (DSM) schools project. Both projects share the same theme – energy efficiency – however, the Eskom project is more detailed as it encompasses the entire concept and its technologies, unlike lighting only.

COMMERCIAL Projects

• Eskom DSM to continue funding qualified Energy Efficient Initiatives on a shared savings basis.
• The KZN Health Department (Kwazulu Natal Provincial Health Department responsible for public health in the province) has indicated that it will roll out a lighting efficiency program on all of its 11 public hospital in the province.
• The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and the National Electricity Regulator are in the process of drafting an Energy Efficient strategy document for all government owned buildings. The strategy document will outline guidelines on the energy efficiency roll out planned for the national, provincial and local arena.
• The University of Natal has embarked on an energy efficiency program for all buildings within the campus. This program will be rolled out to other institutions within the province of KZN.
• The Metropolitan Council of Johannesburg is in the process of drafting an Energy Efficiency Strategy Document. The will focus on;

1. All council owned buildings
   Implementation of efficient luminaire technologies and load control system
   
2. Private commercial property owners
   
3. Implementation of efficient luminaire technologies and load control system
   
4. Residential
   The endorsement of energy efficient modular compact fluorescent lamps.
   Training of engineering students will continue as part of the overall DSM Program. The training will incorporate using these students to conduct lighting audits.
   An agreement has been reached with Sasol Mining to utilize the savings attained from the efficient lighting upgrade undertaken in one of its mines, in the implementation of efficient lighting in all of its 7 under ground mines.

ELECTRICITY BASIC SUPPORT SERVICES TARIFF, (EBSST):

Although the Department of Minerals and Energy were prevented from including CFLs as part of the ‘tariff’ per se, the Minister has pledged her support for ensuring that efficient lighting be linked to the overall initiative.

This linkage has already been implemented through the stock-listing of 12 Volt and 240 Volt CFLs in all Integrated Energy Centers (IeC), ie. the stores in rural areas, serving the entire energy needs of the respective communities.

Another initiative is the possible roll-out of the ELI-program’s pilot initiative with NuRa in Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal, to all four other Concessionaires in the country.

LAMP RECYCLING INITIATIVE:

Due to the importance (and social responsibility) linked the disposal and/ or recycling of CFLs, we will pursue the possibility of obtaining additional funds from Eskom and various research organisations, to continue with the momentum already initiated by BONESA/ ELI in this regard.

NATIONAL AWARENESS INITIATIVES:

Although still in the negotiation stage, BONESA will probably be adopted as a brand to continue creating awareness on behalf of Eskom’s Demand-Side Management (DSM) program, for efficient lighting and various other initiatives in the country.

This will also include monitoring quality products coming into the country, in close collaboration with the newly launched South African Lighting Laboratory (SALAB), and to advise/ inform customers in this regard.

GENERAL

'Eskom' and the 'South African Government' will continue to endeavor constantly evaluating the options/ possibilities of locally manufacturing CFLs in South Africa and to utilize this plant for supporting efficient lighting alternatives throughout Africa, in support of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, (NEPAD).