Theme: Policy settings / Performance thresholds

Product Policy Framework for Demand Side Flexibility: Case Studies

This report is a compilation of case studies mapping the status of residential product flexibility in seven jurisdictions using the EDNA Product Policy Framework for Demand Side Flexibility.  The report aims to test the effectiveness of the framework for mapping product policy and to collate approaches across a range of jurisdictions. 

Advancing the energy efficiency of home energy storage systems

This report explores the energy efficiency of home energy storage systems (HESS), identifies current standards available to test HESS energy efficiency performance, identifies current barriers to lifting the minimum energy efficiency of HESS, and makes recommendations to address these barriers.

Solid-State Lighting: Health Effects and Knowledge Gaps

The health effects of LED lamps and luminaires used for general lighting were reviewed by an international team of researchers working under the 4E implementing agreement of the International Energy Agency (SSLC platform). Effects on the general population and subsets of sensitive groups were studied considering interactions with eye and skin, glare, circadian regulation, neuro-behavioral […]

IEA 4E Smart Sustainability in Lighting and Controls (SSLC) Platform: A New Term Focused on Smart Lighting Systems, 2024 to 2029

IEA 4E Smart Sustainability in Lighting and Controls (SSLC) Platform: A New Term Focused on Smart Lighting Systems, 2024 to 2029. Presentation delivered by Nils Borg at the EEDAL 2024 conference, 7 October in Kitakyushu, Japan. Nils Borg, Manager – Presenter Michael Scholand, L.C., Deputy Manager Prof. Georges Zissis, Chair, Management Committee Peter Bennich, Ph.D., […]

SSLC Platform Overview for BRICS-ISA Conference in Shenzhen, China

IEA 4E Smart Sustainability in Lighting and Controls (SSLC) Platform: A New Term Focused on Smart Lighting Systems, 2024 to 2029 Michael Scholand, L.C., Deputy Manager (presenting) Prof. Georges Zissis, Chair, Management Committee Peter Bennich, Ph.D., Deputy Chair, Management Committee Nils Borg, Manager 18 July 2024 BRICS Smart Lighting Industry Summit, Shenzhen, China

Policy development on energy efficiency of data centres

For data centre energy efficiency, this report provides: overview of data collection/registration projects, overview of current/planned government measures, quantitative estimates of savings from possible measures, and issues for policy makers to consider.

Understanding LED performance: Evidence-based approaches to supporting stakeholders of energy-efficient lighting programmes

The SSL Annex takes an evidence-based approach to evaluating LED product performance. Using comprehensive market data from product registries and other sources, the Annex developed recommendations on product performance and research into test methods that reduce the time and cost burden for government, industry and consumers.  This paper highlights several activities that exemplify this evidence-based […]

Smart Lighting – New Features Impacting Energy Consumption

Smart lamps and luminaires are common in today’s lighting market. Smart lighting provides an opportunity for the consumer to benefit from wireless control of lighting products, e.g. by dimming, colour tuning and scheduling. These functions can provide energy saving but they also require energy consumption to supply standby power and gateways.

Mobile Device Efficiency

This report analyses the energy use of mobile devices, compares policies and identifies policy gaps.

Progressing Energy Efficiency Policies for Systems

Systems are described as the next frontier for energy efficiency policy, offering the potential to unlock huge energy savings in equipment-based energy-using systems.
In this summary we highlight some of the key findings from 4E’s investigations over several years.

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Since 2008, the Energy Efficient End-Use Equipment TCP (4E) has tracked the efficiency trends of major globally traded products and corresponding energy efficiency regulations. 

This enables 4E Members to identify whether their current policies are being effective, how these policies and the performance of products compares across different regions and opportunities for closer alignment.

This process forms a multi-lateral exchange between regulators within 4E Member countries that accelerates the development of product policies and increases the level of energy savings, while also reducing regulatory and cost burdens on industry and consumers.

Joint analysis by the IEA and 4E into the global impacts of energy efficiency regulations¹ has shown that:

-15%

The longest running energy efficiency (EES&L) programmes are estimated to deliver annual reductions of around 15% of total current electricity consumption.

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In the nine countries/regions for which data were available, these programmes reduced annual electricity consumption by a total of around 1,580 terawatt-hours in 2018 – similar to the total electricity generation of wind and solar energy in those countries.

2-3x

On average, the energy efficiency of new major appliances in countries with EES&L programmes has increased two to three times the underlying rate of technology improvement.

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The average purchase price of appliances covered by EES&L programmes declined at a rate of 2-3% per year.

Within 4E economies, energy efficiency regulations, taken to include minimum energy performance standards (MEPS), mandatory and voluntary energy labelling in this report, are a key driver for product efficiency.

Core elements of these regulations include:

  • The methods used to test and measure product performance
  • The metrics used to define energy performance or efficiency
  • The performance thresholds required by regulations

Since 2020, the 4E Product Energy Efficiency Trends (PEET) project has been monitoring the status of these elements across regulations for major appliance and equipment types across 4E Member countries.

1 IEA 4E TCP (2021), Achievements of Energy Efficiency Appliance and Equipment Standards and Labelling Programmes, IEA, Paris (2021). https://www.iea.org/reports/achievements-of-energy-efficiency-appliance-and-equipment-standards-and-labelling-programmes