(AGENPARL) – gio 16 novembre 2023 Issued: Nov 16, 2023 (9:07am EST)
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U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program Celebrates over 25 Years of Achievements in
Lighting Efficiency
WASHINGTON (Nov. 15, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program celebrates over 25 years of achievements
in lighting efficiency. Since the ENERGY STAR label for lighting and
lightbulbs was first introduced in 1997 to improve market uptake of energy
efficient lighting, well over 3 billion ENERGY STAR certified light bulbs have
been sold in the United States. These sales have helped transform the lighting
market and deliver electric energy savings of over one trillion kWh –
equivalent to the annual carbon sequestration of over 800 million acres of
forest in the United States – emphasizing that energy choices count and our
collective decisions as consumers can have a big impact on the
environment.  
“The recent transformation of how America lights its homes and businesses is
an ideal success story of how a simple partnership program can make astounding
progress in addressing climate change,” said Joseph Goffman, Principal
Deputy Assistant Administrator of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. “The
ENERGY STAR label has guided millions of consumers towards lightbulbs that
provide better lighting quality and save money, all while avoiding
extraordinary amounts of climate pollution.” 
Back in 1997, the energy efficient alternative to incandescent lighting was
primarily compact fluorescent bulbs, and the U.S. lighting industry had
struggled to create consumer demand. A lack of consumer awareness and
education around lighting efficiency, combined with limited coordination among
manufacturers, utilities, and retailers created an opportunity for EPA to
generate a market signal to help boost consumer adoption through ENERGY STAR.
Over the next two decades, EPA’s focus on product quality, branding, and
consumer education helped transform the market with the help of dedicated
industry partners. These efforts brought together manufacturers, retailers,
utilities, test labs, certification bodies, utility program implementers,
advocates, and government to collaborate in a voluntary partnership that
delivered unprecedented environmental results – with some partners having
been with the program for over 30 years since the inception of the Greenlights
program, ENERGY STAR’s predecessor.  
With these remarkable improvements in lighting efficiency and quality
resulting from over two decades of innovation from the ENERGY STAR program in
partnership with the lighting industry, the lighting market has transformed,
and inefficient light bulbs are a thing of the past. In May 2022, the
Department of Energy formalized a policy that enforces a 45 lumen-per-watt
limit and ushers in a new era for lighting. With this new standard, only
energy efficient lightbulbs, predominantly LEDs and a small subset of CFLs,
can be sold in the U.S. As a result of this new standard and widespread market
penetration of energy efficient lighting, the ENERGY STAR label will be phased
out from most lighting options effective at the end of 2024. ENERGY STAR will
continue to certify and maintain specifications for downlights and string
lights, which are not impacted by the federal standard.  
About ENERGY STAR 
ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing
simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely
on to make well-informed decisions. Thousands of industrial, commercial,
utility, state, and local organizations rely on their partnership with EPA to
deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and
its partners helped American families and businesses avoid more than $500
billion in energy costs and achieve more than 4 billion metric tons of
greenhouse gas reductions. More background information about ENERGY STAR’s
impacts.
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