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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
Decision Support System
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EPA's Green Lights program includes a project to develop a computerized decision support
system that will allow Green Lights corporations to rapidly analyze their options for installing
energy-efficient lighting.
This system will help corporations:
• survey the lighting systems in their facilities;
• assess their retrofit options;
• select the option that maximizes energy and pollution savings while simultaneously
maintaining or improving lighting quality and meeting the Green Lights profitability
criteria;
• produce reports suitable for use by facility managers, corporate financial staff, and
corporate senior management.
EPA will also develop a training program for Green Lights Partners (and others) who wish to
use the decision support system. Additional enhancements may include the provision of handheld
data collection computers and digital lightmeters. The decision support system will be able to
analyze the lighting in office buildings, warehouses, retail buildings, manufacturing facilities, and
parking garages.
Recent Developments:
• formation of a User Advisory Group.
• beginning to build the database for generic retrofit packages.
• initiated development of a retrofit workbook.
Future Milestones:
• beta testing of the office module with Green Lights Partner retrofits by early summer.
• office module software available for distribution to Green Lights participants by late
summer/early fall.
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For additional information, contact:
Program pirector Project Manager
Bob Kwartin, Director Randall Cook
Green Lights Program Project Manager
Global Change Division (ANR-445) ICF InfoTech
EPA 9300 Lee Highway
401 M St., S.W. Fairfax, VA 22031
vVashington, D.C. 20460 (703) 934-3411
(202) 479-6936 FAX: (703) 691-3353
FAX: (202) 479-6937
April 1991
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 5, Library (PL-12J)
77 West Jackson Boulevard, 12th Floor
Chicago. IL 60604-3590
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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
Financing
Energy-Efficient Lighting
Though energy-efficient lighting can be a highly profitable investment, the cost of retrofitting
existing facilities or of choosing more efficient equipment in new construction can be a barrier to
the realization of these opportunities. Corporate constraints on capital availability can delay
worthwhile investments for years.
EPA's Green Lights Program includes a support project to help Green Lights Partners
overcome financing barriers to their installation of energy-efficient lighting technologies and
designs. The financing assistance project will identify institutions that provide financing to reduce
the first cost of efficient installations and/or provide attractive repayment terms. The project will
compile and distribute to Partners four comprehensive registries of:
• utility-sponsored financial assistance, including information on auditing and technical
support, lighting design services, free installation, rebates, and loans;
• energy service compar-es that install lighting efficiency measures at no initial cost to the
user, with payments made from the electricity savings;
• governmental grants and low-interest loans offered through federal, state and local
programs;
• banks, leasing companies and other sources of investment capital for efficiency improve-
ments.
This project may also explore potential strategies for expanding the availability of energy
efficiency financing from private-sector sources, utilities, and government.
Recent Developments:
• Version 0.5 of a database of all utility rebate programs and a user manual that was mailed
to Green Lights participants.
• comments on the utility rebate software being collected and assimilated into Version 1.0.
Future Milestones:
• Version 1.0 (and user manual) ready for distribution by late spring.
• include a registry of financing opportunities available through Lighting Management
Companies and Energy Service Companies in a preliminary software version.
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For additional information, contact:
Bob Kwartin, Director
Green Lights Program
Global Change Division (ANR-445)
EPA
401 M St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 2C460
(202) 479-6936
FAX: (202) 479-6937
Project Manager
Cara Biasucci
Research Analyst
Bruce Company
Suite 215
1100 6th St., S.W.
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 382-4992
FAX: (202) 475-7010
April 1991
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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
Lighting Product
Supply and Demand
Because of increasing demand caused by utility rebate programs and increased customer
acceptance, some energy-efficient lighting products are currently in short supply. EPA is
concerned that the surge in demand by Green Lights Partners for these and other products may
exacerbate supply bottlenecks.
As part of its Green Lights program, EPA and several co-sponsors have developed a support
project to help ensure that Green Lights and other programs do not create demand for lighting
products that cannot be supplied in sufficient quantity.
The project will research and survey all known lighting promotion programs (Green Lights,
Federal Energy Management Program, utility programs, state programs) and produce a demand
forecast for 1,3 and 5 years in the future. The survey will be designed to give lighting suppliers
the information they need to make prudent investments in manufacturing plant expansion.
At the same time, a supply-side survey will gather information from lighting manufacturers
on their historical, current, and projected product manufacturing capacities, both here and abroad
(where importation does or could play a potential role). Confidential surveys managed by CPA
firms will be used where proprietary information may be jeopardized. This will allow energy-
efficient lighting promoters to adjust the tempos of their programs to account for any potential
supply bottlenecks.
Products to be included in this supply survey are ballasts, lamps, fixture upgrades such as
reflectors and kits, renovation or new construction products, and controls such as occupancy
sensors and integrated dimming controls.
The most important component of this project will be the transfer of demand forecasts to the
product suppliers/ and supply forecasts to energy-efficient lighting promotion programs at EPA
and utilities. Subsequent surveys will be undertaken to determine whether the first round of
surveys led to revised supply and demand projections.
This project is co-sponsored by EPA, the Electric Power Research Institute, the California
Institute for Energy Efficiency, and the U.S. Department of Energy and is managed by the Lighting
Research Institute.
Recent Developments:
• Draft report will be completed April 15,1991. It will cover estimated shipments of energy-
efficient fluorescent lamps (including compact fluorescents) and ballasts for fluorescent
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lamps (including electronic ballasts). The report will also include historical and projected
demand stimulation data from 28 utilities and the Green Lights program.
• A final report is expected by late May 1991.
For additional information, contact:
Program PJKC*Pr Project Manager
Bob Kwartin, Director Al Gough
Green Lights Program President
Global Change Division Lighting Research Institute
EPA 10 Red Fox Lane
401 M St., S.W. Littleton, CO 80127
Washington, D.C. 20460
(202) 479-6936 (303) 933-4756
FAX: (202) 479-6937 FAX: (303) 979-2231
April 1991
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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
National Lighting Product
Information Program
Many companies don't purchase energy-efficient lighting technologies and designs because
they lack confidence in the technical claims made on the products' behalf, or are unable to sort
through all of the relevant information about competing products, or are concerned about
employee acceptance. The lack of standardized testing criteria and reporting procedures has been
identified as a primary barrier to the use of and innovative development of energy-efficient
lighting.
EPA's Green Lights program includes a support project to help establish a national lighting
product information program. Among those who would expect to use and benefit from such a
program are Green Lights corporations; participants in the lighting decision-making process, such
as contractors, utilities, and building owners; electric utilities; lighting users and manufacturers;
environmental advocacy groups; and public policymakers.
This project is co-sponsored by the Lighting Research Center, Lighting Research Institute, and
the Empire State Electric Energy Research Cooperative. Other sponsors are expected to join
shortly.
Recent Developments:
• development of the "Guide to Performance Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Lighting
Products" due for release to Green Lights participants by late spring.
• initiation of the first two name-brand product reports which will cover reflector technology
and electronic ballasts. These reports will be available by late summer.
Future Milestones:
• other energy-efficient lighting technology reports will be starting shortly
For additional information, contact:
Project Director
Russell Leslie
Associate Director
Lighting Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Troy, NY 12180
(518) 276-8716
FAX: (518) 276-2999 April 1991
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Bob Kwartin, Director
Green Lights Program
Global Change Division (ANR-445)
EPA
401 M St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460
(202) 479-6936
FAX: (202) 479-6937
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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
Manufacturer Ally Program
The Green Lights Manufacturer Ally program encourages cooperation between manufacturers
of energy-efficient lighting products and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enhance
the lighting market infrastructure and increase the Nation's awareness of the benefits of energy-
efficient lighting. The ally program, open to all manufacturers of energy-efficient lighting
technology, acknowledges a shared commitment to the promotion and development of energy-
efficient lighting and the associated environmental benefits. EPA does not endorse or promote any
manufacturer (or its products or services) as a participant in Green Lights.
In order to become an EPA Green Lights Manufacturer Ally, a manufacturer signs a Memo-
randum of Understanding (MOU) with EPA. The MOU is a voluntary, non-binding agreement
which sets forth the following commitments:
EPA agrees to:
• provide its Allies with presentation materials (including the Green Lights logo) that will
assist the Allies in making effective presentations on the environmental and economical
benefits of energy-efficient lighting;
• provide Green Lights Partners with a list of those companies that are Green Lights Allies;
• invite Green Lights Allies to display their products and services at major EPA events where
Green Lights Partners will be recruited;
• establish a lighting product information program;
• assist the lighting industry in establishing education and certification mechanisms for
lighting professionals;
• work with manufacturers and other members of the lighting community to conduct a
supply and demand analysis for energy-efficient lighting products;
• work to remove any unjustified regulatory barriers to the widespread adoption of energy-
efficient lighting and promote additional mechanisms and incentives for the adoption of
energy-efficient lighting.
Manufacturer Ally agrees to:
• complete energy-efficient lighting upgrades at 90% of the square footage of its facilities
wherever profitable while maintaining or improving lighting quality;
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• publicize the environmental benefits of energy-efficient lighting and assist Partners in
achieving the goals of the Green Lights program;
• include a display on the environmental benefits of energy-efficient lighting in any suitable
demonstration center and to permit EPA to make use of these facilities for promotional
presentations on Green Lights;
• inform EPA of interest expressed by prospective Green Lights Partners;
• cooperate with EPA in developing an assessment of the supply and demand for energy-
efficient lighting products;
• cooperate with EPA, utilities, and other lighting manufacturers to establish and participate
in a lighting product information program;
• provide warranties for all energy-efficient lighting technologies procured by Green Lights
Partners and consider adoption of any voluntary warranty guidelines which EPA may
develop in the future.
For additional information, contact:
Program Director Program Manager
Bob Kwartin Cara Biasucci
Green Lights Program Director Research Analyst
Global Change Division, ANR-445 Bruce Company
EPA Suite 215
401 M St., S.W. 1100 6th St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460 Washington, D.C. 20024
(202) 479-6936 (202) 382-4992
FAX: 202/479-6937 FAX: 202/475-7010
April 1991
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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
Utility Ally Program
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The Green Lights Utility Ally program promotes cooperation between utilities and the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency (EPA) in publicizing the environmental, economic, and quality
benefits of energy efficient lighting technologies. The ally program is open to all U.S. electric
utilities, including investor owned, municipal, and federal/state/district utilities, and rural electric
cooperatives.
In order to become a Green Lights Utility Ally the utility agrees to sign a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between their utility and EPA. The MOU is a voluntary agreement and
can be terminated by either party at any time without penalty. The commitments are as follows:
EPA agrees to:
• provide tools and methodology for pollution prevention calculations, energy savings,
dollar savings, and lighting upgrade designs;
• provide materials and information to assist the electric utility in its efforts to promote
the use of high quality energy-efficient lighting;
• enhance the energy-efficient lighting market by working with lighting industry to
enhance consumer confidence in lighting product availability, quality, and value.
The Electric Utility agrees to:
• complete energy-efficient lighting upgrades at 90% of the square footage of its facilities
wherever profitable while maintaining or improving lighting quality;
• assist EPA in marketing the benefits of Green Lights and energy-efficient lighting
technologies to industrial and commercial customers;
• participate in an ongoing lighting product information program and employee education
programs with regard to energy efficient lighting;
• assist EPA in documenting the savings from energy efficient lighting retrofits within
their service area.
EPA Green Lights Program Benefits to Electric Utilities:
• Improves utility image with its customers by showing the utility's concern and
responsiveness to national and customer needs for environmental protection;
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provides an avenue for utility to improve customer relations as it supports customer goals
for energy-efficiency and cost-effectiveness;
supports utility demand-side management objectives, particularly those involving peak
clipping and strategic conservation;
establishes a network which will permit timely exchange of information and materials (e.g.,
information on program effectiveness, customers experiences and decision-support tools)
between utility allies and EPA.
For additional information, contact:
Bob Kwartin, Director
Green Lights Program
Global Change Division, ANR-445
EPA
401 M St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460
(202) 479-6936
FAX: (202)479-6937
Project Manager
Jerry Lawson, Chief
Energy Productivity &
Pollution Prevention Branch
Global Change Division, ANR-445
EPA
401 M St. S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460
(202) 479-6936
FAX: (202) 479-6937
April 1991
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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
Lighting Management Company
Ally Program
The Green Lights Lighting Management Company Ally program encourages cooperation
between lighting management companies and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in
publicizing the environmental, economic, and quality benefits of energy efficient lighting tech-
nologies. Lighting management companies (LMCs) often provide a wide array of services
including providing expertise in lighting surveys/lighting energy audits, recommendations on
lighting, management and/or performance of lighting related installations, and routine lighting
maintenance.
As a Green Lights Lighting Management Company Ally, a LMC signs a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) stating that it agrees to make every effort to minimize the lighting energy
consumption of their clients in accordance with their clients' requirements for cost-effective and
high quality lighting. The LMC MOU is a voluntary, non-binding agreement which sets forth the
following commitments:
EPA agrees to:
• provide Green Lights Partners with a list of those companies that are Green Lights Allies;
• provide its Allies with presentation materials (including the Green Lights logo) that will
assist the Allies in making effective presentations on the environmental and economical
benefits of energy-efficient lighting;
• invite Green Lights Allies to display their products and services at major EPA events where
Green Lights Partners will be recruited;
• establish a lighting product information program;
• assist the lighting industry in establishing education and certification mechanisms for
lighting professionals;
• work with manufacturers and other members of the lighting community to conduct a
supply and demand analysis for energy-efficient lighting products;
• work to remove unjustified regulatory, administrative and other barriers to the widespread
adoption of energy-efficient lighting to extent allowable by law and consistent with other
policies.
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Green Lights Lighting Management Company Ally agrees to:
• complete energy-efficient upgrades at 90% of the square footage of its facilities wherever
profitable while maintaining or improving lighting quality;
• employ a full-time person who has a certification of competence in the specification and
application of energy-efficient lighting products and designs;
• provide EPA with a one page resume of qualifications;
• cooperate with EPA in developing an assessment of the supply and demand for energy-
efficient lighting products;
• cooperate with EPA, utilities, and other lighting manufacturers to establish and participate
in a lighting product information program;
• comply with all federal, state, and local building, safety, and environmental laws, regula-
tions, and codes;
• obtain life/safety certifications for all products and all product applications which Green
Lights Lighting Management Company Ally is responsible;
• inform EPA, upon request, of the warranty terms on products and services Green Lights
Lighting Management Company Ally provides;
• consider adoption of any voluntary warranty guidelines which EPA may develop in the
future;
• offer Partners ongoing maintenance services;
• offer Partners liability insurance coverage, as requested;
• coordinate the disposal of all lighting materials in compliance with all appropriate laws and
regulations.
For additional information, contact:
Bob Kwartin, Manager Peter Weisberg
Green Lights Program Analyst
Global Change Division (ANR-445) ICF Incorporated
EPA Suite 700
401 M St., S.W. 409 12th St. S.W.
Washington, D.C 20460 Washington, DC 20024
(202) 382-4992 (202) 646-6088
FAX: (202) 475-7010 FAX: (202) 646-6093
April 1991
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Green Light For Green Lights
Address by William K. Reilly
Administrator, U.S.EPA
January 17. 1991
Green Lights Workshop
EPA Headquarters
Washington, DC
U.S.EPA
Communictfions And Public Allan (A-107)
21Z-100S
I know that it has been a long day for many of you, so,
as Henry Vm said to each of his wives, I won't keep you
long.
I would like to extend a warm welcome to John
Millhone, our Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy,
who's with us today, along with the rest of this distin-
guished audience. I'd also like to give special thanks to
Bob Kwartin, who's doing an outstanding job as EPA's
program manager for Green Lights. Green Lights
actually got started about a year and a half ago when
John Hoffman, Director of our Global Change Division,
heard about several excellent sources of cost-effective
lighting, and he asked Bob to look into the subject Well,
in fact, he did more man that—he sent Bob to lighting
school. Actually there's a joke going around the office
right now about how many EPA employees it takes to
screw in a lightbulb. The answer is just one, and Bob's
extension is_.
All of us here at EPA are very proud of Green Lights.
So proud, in fact, that we're installing energy-efficient
lighting next week on EPA's twelfth floor (which in-
cludes my office), as well as here in this room. This is
not owing to the scurrilous allegation that the 12th floor
is especially in neeH of illumination.
I guess that we're proud of Green Lights much in the
way that Americans are proud of electric lighting itself.
Our nation gained its independence in the American
Revolution of 1776. But as National Academy of Scienc-
es President Frank Press recently reminded us, the world
had gained much of its own independence just a few
years earlier in another revolution. When in 1751 a 45-
year old Benjamin Franklin sent a kite up into the sky
and brought down lightning, a technological revolution
occurred, and the floodgates of electric light were
opened.
And even today—over two centuries later—we still
marvel at the power of light to illuminate and transport.
Who fails to thrill at the sight of Manhattan's skyline by
twilight, or at the panorama of a ball park on a Friday
night, or even at the silent glow of a distant farmhouse
at dinnertime. To say nothing of the lighting at a
Madonna concert There is only one great thing," an
ancient Eskimo song tells us, and that is "the light that
fills the world."
And so it is an important day when our culture
begins a new chapter in the history of lighting. Perhaps
this is one of those days. Green Lights is a historic new
partnership between government and the private sector
designed to implement pollution-reducing, energy-
efficient lighting designs and technologies across the
country—a program through which the environment win
not only be protected, but protected at a profit
Now, I know what you're thinking. As Officer Joe
Friday used to say: just the facts, ma'am. Well, here are
the facts about energy efficient lighting: I know that
you've been hearing many of these numbers all day long,
but they really can't be emphasized enough: About 20
percent of the electricity used annually in the United
States is for lighting. Lighting for industry, stores.
offices, and wareliouses represents more than 80 percent
of mat total.
But if energy-efficient lighting were used wherever
profitablt, the electricity required for Sighting would be
cut in half, and along with it pollution and other emis-
sions from power generators. Such a cut would amount
to a reduction in our nation's energy use of about 250
billion kilowatt-hours per year—and thafs about 10
percent of our total annual consumption of energy. This
decrease would save more than 16 billion dollars in our
electric bills. Thafs 16 billion dollars to invest in Ameri-
ca's future. Moreover, annual sulfur dioxide emissions
would be reduced by about 15 million tons, or nearly
seven percent of the national total. Nitrogen oxide
emissions would be reduced by some 650,000 tons, or
more than three percent of the national total. Carbon
dioxide emissions would be reduced by more than 150
million tons, or nearly four percent of the national total;
thafs the equivalent of 25 million cars, some 15 percent
of all cars in the United States.
Greon Light* is a voluntary, non-ragulatory program sponsored by EPA to •ncourag* U.S. corporations to adopt •n«rgy-«ffic*nt kghtng » •
proftablt moans of preventing pollution. During to wook of January 14. representatives tarn 133 major corporations took part in fiv* GrMn-bghtt
workshops staffed by EPA officials and experts from too ighting industry.
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Here's where Green Lights comes in. Green Lights is
a voluntary, non-regulatory program sponsored by the
Environmental Protection Agency to help VS. companies
realize the profit of pollution prevention by installing
energy-efficient lighting designs and technologies, but
only where they are profitable, and only where they
maintain or improve lighting quality. And here I would
direct your attention to a line in the Memorandum of
Understanding that each of you has received: "this
agreement can be terminated... with no notice or penal-
ties,"
Through this non-binding agreement, partnership
corporations that join the Green Lights program agree to
survey their facilities and install new lighting systems
that maximize energy savings over five years (again, only
to the extent that these systems are profitable and do not
compromise lighting quality). These corporations will
document the improvements they make, and will commit
to building any new facilities using the most current
building energy guidelines. This is the framework for a
dynamic process, one which will continue to be refined
through consultations with partner companies in order
to best serve their needs.
For our part, EPA is providing technical support to
our partner corporations, as well as lending support to
the lighting industry. Specifically, EPA offers an analysis
support system that will allow corporations to assess
their upgrade options quickly. Second, EPA compiles
databases of products and contractors, manufacturers
and distributors, thereby ensuring product availability.
Third, EPA is establishing an independent testing
program that will increase confidence in the energy-
efficient lighting industry. Fourth, EPA assists partner-
ship corporations in securing financing sources for their
upgrading. And finally, EPA will publicly recognize
successful Green Lights companies, ensuring that cus-
tomers, shareholders, employees, and the public are
aware of these companies' environmental protection
achievements.
The reception to Green Lights has been enthusiastic
already. Twenty-four corporations—and counting-Hue
already on board, including some Fortune 500 companies
such as Phillips Petroleum, Johnson It Johnson, Qticorp,
and Polaroid. I even noticed that Nike is one of our
partners. And thaf s appropriate, because Nike athletic
star Bo Jackson wrote in his recent autobiography that
he's so fast that when he turns his lights off at night, he's
in bed before if s dark. Well, I guess Bo knows lighting,
and so must Nike.
I'm especially pleased to see Browning-Ferns on the
list. And I want to take this opportunity to address C\e'
scandalous rumor that Browning-Ferris's participation is
connected to the fact that the company's chairman is
former EPA Administrator Bill Ruckleshaus; if s true. *
Then there are the lighting manufacturing compa-
nies—our Green Lights "allies," who form the third
member of the Green Lights team. An equally impres-
sive list of those already involved includes Phillips
Lighting Company, Genlyte Group, and Johnson Con-
trols. With EPA, these allies will work directly with
partner corporations to facilitate installation and develop-
ment procedures.
To further ease the transition to energy-efficient
lighting for Green Lights partners, EPA is establishing a
utility allies program, encouraging utilities to help Green
Lights partners finance their initial costs of switching to
energy-efficient lighting. In fact, many visionary and
progressive utilities like Atlantic Electric, Consolidated
Edison, New England Electric, and Northeast Utilities
already offer rebates as part of least-cost planning
strategies. As a former board member of Northeast
Utilities, I am confident of the ability of these utilities to
provide smaller corporations with greater access to
energy-efficient lighting, while contributing to profitable
pollution prevention.
So in Green Lights we see a multi-faceted partnership,
through which not only partner corporations and EPA,
but also lighting manufacturers and utility companies,
help to provide for common ground, upon which each of
us will draw for years to come.
Listen for a moment to what these participants are
saying. Administrative Services Director Cameron Beers
at Gillette says that his company is more committed to
energy-efficient lighting than ever before. Thanks to
Green Lights and other energy efficiency measures, he
says, it takes Gillette fifty percent less energy to produce
a razor blade today than it did in 1973. That's right, fifty
percent lest.
Green Lights' success is partly due to the fact that
there just is no downside to energy-efficient lighting. I'm
no mathematician, but the Green Lights equation is
simple proven technologies—plus lower costs—plus less
pollution—equals energy efficiency—equals competitive-
ness—equals success. I only wish that every environ-
mental initiative that I oversee here as Administrator
could be so non-controversial.
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But I would propose that Green Lights' -cess is due
even more to this program's market-oriented emphasis
on pollution prevention. And in this respect. Green
Lights really speaks to the broader environmental agenda
of President George Bush,
I speak of an agenda built where possible around
non-regulatory ventures in environmental protection that
prevent pollution from being created in the first instance.
Programs that transcend traditional end-of-the-pipe
cleanup with new strategies that uss materials, fuels,
processes, practices, and products to reduce or eliminate
the generation of waste in the first place. Like the
historic dean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Green
Lights will work because it lets the market work. And
again we see a success ratio founded upon simple
equations: Voluntary action based on clear incentives
plus flexibility in approach equals tangible rewards for
both the environment and the economy.
Such initiatives succeed because they promote strate-
gies of in-corporation, forging that vital link between
environmental policy and economic policy. They bring
the public sector and private sector together, environ-
mentalists and industrialists alike, to serve a common
customer, the American citizen.
So you can see why we at EPA are so proud of Green
Lights, just the way Americans are proud of Ben Franklin
and his lightning kite. Franklin probably knew that in
ancient China, the word "wisdom" was formed by a
combination of the ideograms for wind and light The
ancient Qunese calligraphers would probably have
defined Green Lights similarly, but this time using a
combination of light and wisdom. Light and wisdom:
providing the cornerstones for a cost effective, energy
efficient, and environmentally sound lighting policy for
the future.
To this end, we thank each of our participants today
for their past and future dedication to corporate and
environmental responsibility, and we look forward to
joining with all of you in the months and years to come:
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U.S. EPA GREEN LIGHTS
Memorandum of Understanding
for Partners
Basic Principles of Agreement
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Green Lights Partner agree in good
faith that:
• the purposes of Green Lights are to prevent air pollution, reduce electricity bills, in-
crease competitiveness and enhance national energy security;
• the Green Lights Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is a voluntary agreement
which can be terminated by Green Lights Partner with no notice or penalties;
EPA Agrees to:
• provide Green Lights Partner with recognition for its public service in protecting the
environment;
• develop a decision support system to help Partners conduct lighting surveys and op-
tions analyses;
• create Green Lights Allies Programs for lighting manufacturers, lighting management
companies and electric utilities to aid Partners on technical and financing issues;
• start an independent lighting product information program to provide brand name
product information;
• develop workshops and training programs;
• work to remove any unjustified regulatory barriers to energy-efficient lighting;
A Green Lights Partner agrees to:
• survey the lighting in all of its U.S. facilities;
• consider a full range of lighting options to reduce energy use;
• retrofit 90% of the square footage of its facilities with options that maximize energy
savings only to the extent that such options are 1) profitable and 2) do not compromise
lighting quality.
• complete retrofits within 5 years of signing the agreement;
• annually document the improvements it makes;
• design all new facilities to meet the most current building efficiency standards;
• educate its employees about the benefits of energy-efficient lighting.
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GREEN LIGHTS PARTNERS
(as of May 2, 1991)
Abbott Laboratories
American West Airlines
American Express Company
American Standard, Inc.
Amoco
Atlantic Richfield
Automatic Data Processing
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Bechtel
Bell Atlantic
Boeing
Browning Ferris, Inc.
The Oliver Carr Company
Chevron
Citicorp / Citibank
Continental Insurance
Crestar Bank
Digital Equipment Corporation
Duracell U.S.A.
First Data Resources, Inc.
First Wachovia Corporation
General Dynamics Corporation
Gerber Products Company
The Gillette Company
Hasbro, Inc.
IPS Electric and Midwest Gas
Johnson and Johnson
Kerr-McGee Corporation
Eli Lilly and Company
Lone Star Steel
Maytag
Memorex Telex
Fred Meyer, Inc.
Herman Miller, Inc.
3M
Nike, Inc.
Phillips Petroleum Company
Polaroid Corporation
Preston Trucking
Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc.
Stamats Communications, Inc.
Texaco Inc.
Thrift Drug Company, Inc.
Union Camp Corporation
University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research
US Bancorp
USF&G
Warner-Lambert Company
Waste Management, Inc.
Whirlpool Corporation
Wolverine World Wide
Xerox Corporation
Yellow Freight System, Inc.
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GREEN LIGHTS ALLIES
(as of May 2, 1991)
MANUFACTURER ALLIES:
Badger USA, Inc.
Brayer Lighting, Inc.
Bryant Electric
Duro-Test Corporation
Dynamic Energy Products
Electronic Ballast Technology, Inc.
Emergency Safety Products, Inc.
Energy Design Corporation
Etta Industries
FTI
The Genlyte Group
Guardian Lighting Controls, Inc.
Jedcor Energy Management Company, Inc.
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Kilowatt Saver, Inc.
Lighting Resources, Inc.
Lightron of Cornwall, Inc.
3M
Novitas, Inc.
Omega Industries
Parke Industries, Inc.
Parke Industries East, Inc.
Parrish Lighting and Engineering, Inc.
Peschel Energy, Inc.
Philips Lighting Company
Powerline Communications
Pre Finish Metals, Inc.
Pritchett Wilson Group, Inc.
Prolight Lighting
Roth Brothers, Inc.
Ruud Lighting, Inc.
Silverlight Corporation
Simkar Lighting Fixture Company, Inc.
Solar Kinetics, Inc.
Sylvania Lighting Division
Tamarack Corporation
Thomas Industries, Inc.
Topaz Energy Systems, Inc.
U.S. Light Bulb, Inc.
Venture Lighting International
Warner Technologies
The Watt Stopper, Inc.
H.E. Williams, Inc.
Wismarq Light Company, Inc.
X-Tra Light Systems, Inc.
LIGHTING MANAGEMENT COMPANY
ALLIES:
Aetna Electrical and Lighting Services
Approved Lighting Corporation
A-l Lighting
Colorado Lighting
Conserve Electric Company, Inc.
Fluorescent Maintenance Service, Inc.
Herb Kohn Electric Company
DlumElex Corporation
Imperial Lighting Maintenance Company
Lighting Maintenance, Inc.
Lighting Maintenance and Service
Luminaire Service Program
Murphy Electric
Planned Lighting, Inc.
Sunshine Lighting Company
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EPA launches energy^saving lighting program
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ENERGY
SAVINGS
Government forms
partnership with industry
Jerry Lawson and Bob Kwartin
See the full
LIGHTFAIR keynote
address Tuesday
March 5, 8 30 am.
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Occupancy Scnscf
When a cartoon
character has a
bright idea, an artist draws
draws a picture of a glowing
light bulb above the character's
head. The goal of the US
Environmental Protection
Agency's Green Lights pro-
gram is to replace that conven-
tional light bulb—and as many
others as possible—with an
energy-efficient lighting pro-
duct that saves energy and
prevents pollution.
Green Lights toftwohmary,
non-regulatory program
whose purpose is to encourage
major US corporations to in-
stall energy-efficient lighting
designs and technologies
wherever they are profitable
and maintain or improve
lighting quality. Green Lights is
designed to achieve cleaner air
through energy efficiency.
The importance to this pro-
gram of a successful partner-
ship between EPA and the
lighting industry cannot be
understated. Recognizing the
opportunity offered by this
partnership, EPA and the
lighting industry have already
launched a number of projects
to support Green Lights and to
build the customer base for
energy-efficient lighting.
The underlying principle
of Green Lights is Environ-
mental Protection at a Profit
Corporations that make the
commitment to Green Lights
will profit by lowering their
electricity bills, improving
lighting quality, and increasing
worker productivity.
They will also reduce the air
pollution caused by electricity
generation, which includes
carbon dioxide sulfur dioxide
and nitrogen oxides.
Lighting accounts for 20-25
Partners
The charter Green UgriB Partners (as of Decemt3er2Q 1990) account
for more than 250 million ft2 of office, manufacturing, retail, and
warehouse space
Amoco
Bechtel
BaSAflanOc
Browning Ferns Inc.
The Oliver Carr Company
Citcor^Cfflbank
Digital cQuipment Co*po
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UQfTEMR
In another slide
that will be shown at
the L1GHTTA1R
keynote address the
EPA has calculated
energy savings and
pavback on a switch
from cool-white to T8
fluorescent
percent of the electricity used
annually m the United States.
lighting for industry, stores, of-
fices, and warehouses repre-
sents 80-90 percent of total
lighting electricity use As the
lighting industry knows, the
energy-efficient lighting de-
signs and technologies avail-
able today can dramatically
reduce energy consumption
and prevent pollution while
delivering better lighting If
energy-efficient lighting were
used everywhere it were
profitable, the electricity
required for lighong would be
cut by 50 percent, and ag-
gregate national electricity de-
mand would be reduced by
more than 10 percent
This reducoon would free
$18.6 billion from ratepayer
bills for useful investment.
Annual carbon dioxide emis-
sions would be reduced by 232
million tons—4 percent of the
national total—the equivalent
of 42 million cars, or one-third
of all the cars in the United
States, it would also reduce
sulfur dioxide emissiowby 1.7
million tons—7 percent of the
national total; and rafMfBCiv
ide emissions by 900,000
tons—4 percent of the na-
tional total. Other forms of
pollution, including boiler
ash, scrubber waste, acidic
drainage and waste bom coal
mining, radioactive waste,
and natural gas leakage, would
also be reduced.
EPA has launched the Green
Lights program to help US
companies realize this poten-
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rial to prevent pollution at a
profit by installing energy-
efficient lighting designs and
technologies. When a corpora-
aon joins the Green Lights pro-
gram, it signs a memorandum
of understanding with EPA and
becomes a Green Lights Part-
ner This agreement commits
the corporation to survey all of
its facilities and install new
lighting systems that maximize
energy savings, to the extent
that they are profitable and do
not compromise lighting
quality. There are no tech-
nology prescriptions. The cor-
poration also agrees to com-
plete these upgrades within 5
yrs and to document the im-
provements it makes. After the
company joins die program, it
commits using the most cur-
rent building energy guidelines
in all new construction.
EPA will publicly recognize
successful Green Lights cor-
porations. It intends to credit
these companies for their con-
tributions to pollution preven-
tion, and seeks to ensure that
customers, shareholders,
employees, and the public are
aware of their achievements in
protecting the environment
with energy efficiency
Role of the lighting
industry
EPA also commits to provide
substantial technical support
to its Green Lights Partners,
starting with a computerized
decision support system that
will allow each corporation to
rapidly survey and analyze its
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Some US companies and institutions have already begun
to realize the benefits of energy-efficient lighting. 1 he
University of California alone reduced COj
emissions bv 19 2 million IDS
The EPA
calculates that
daylight dimming
would save 208
kWhrs per year
per fixture in
some
applications.
When all available technology is harnessed, the
savings become even more impressive. Green
Lights nude these calculations for one room
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upgrade options. EPA will
compile a database of the cur-
rent range of lighting products
and assist expert-system
distributors in marketing and
upgrading their products. The
lighting industry can help EPA
with these projects by telling
the agency about its products,
helping to clarify the needs of
lighting systems installers, and
assisting in identifying and
accomplishing upgrades to
expert systems In rum, EPA
commits to strengthen the in-
frastructure of the energy-
efficient lighting industry with
several other projects in which
the lighting industry can play a
significant role.
In order to ensure that the
Green Lights program does not
create demand for products
that cannot be supplied in suf-
ficient quantity, EPA is working
with manufacturers and dis-
tributors to assess product
availability and inform manu-
factuers of the likely new de-
mand that will be created by
the Green Lights program. EPA
is working with the Electric
Power Research Instinut die
California Institute forEangy
Efficiency, the LiglUng
Research Institute, and die
lighting vendor community on
this project
Working with utilities and
the lighting industry, EPA is
helping to establish an in-
dependent lighting product
testing program to increase
confidence in energy-efficient
lighting products and lower
one of the barriers to new, in-
novative products. EPA is also
planning to promote upgraded
education of lighting installers
and specifiers.
Green Lights corporations
are interested in existing
success stones about energy-
efficient lighting. EPA is col-
lecting and distributing case
studies that feature energy-
efficient lighting designs and
technologies, either in new
construction or in upgrades of
existing buildings. Lighting
vendors can support this pro-
ject by identifying case studies
and helping EPA gather in-
formation about them. Each
case study will mention die
equipment, products, and de-
signs used.
EPA is also developing a
Green Lights Allies program
for lighting manufacturers
and installers. Green Lights
Allies sign a memorandum
of understanding, which
commits them to follow
specific practices in energy-
efficient lighting. EPA will
release the names of these
Green Lights Allies to Green
Lights Partners and the public.
EPA's Green Lights pro-
gram is founded on the belief
that the installation of energy-
efficient lighting can not only
reduce air pollution, save
energy, and enhance national
energy security, but increase
profits and competitiveness as
well Green Lights sets a prece-
dent by exemplifying a volun-
tary programs that achieves
national goals widi minimal
red tape
AHine Incandescent Compact Fluorescent
The compact fluorescent is a readv
replacement for the A-line incandescent and
lasts 13 times as long Their color is wanner
than the cool-whites
Solid-sate
electronic ballasts
offer performance
advantages
The effects of energy
savings are far
reaching. Efficient
lighting reduces
HVAC loads.
Mercury vapor has
been the standard for
street, parking lot, and
even factory lighting
for decades.
HPS provides more
light at km«r cost
than mercury vapor
TV authors:
Jerry Lawson is
the chief of the
Energy Produc-
ovity md Pollu-
tion Branch.
Global Change
Division of the
US Environmen-
tal Protection
Agency
Bob Kwamn is
the director of
the Green Lights
program For
more informa-
tion, write
them at EPA
(ANR-445). *0l
M Street, SW.
Washington. DC
20460
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LIGHTS POLLUTION PREVENTION METHODOLOGY
In 19887, total electricity sales for all end use in the United States were 2,578 BkWh.2
Between 20 and 25 percent of all electricity sold is used for lighting.3 Using the midpoint of
this range, 22.5%, it follows that 580 BkWh sold were used for lighting.
Converting to energy-efficient lighting wherever it would be profitable can reduce energy
consur ntion for lighting by fifty percent/ Assuming reduction in energy use of fifty percent
means a savings of 290 BkWh, or 11% of the national total in electricity sales. Multiplying
avoided electricity sales by an average cost of 7 cents per kWh for commercial sector use5, a
successful Green Lights program will free $20.3 Billion a year for useful investment.
Significant percentages of CO2, SO2 and NOx will be prevented through a full scale
implementation of the Green Lights program. Pollution prevention is calculated by multiplying
averag.' air pollution emissions of CO2, SO2, and NOx" by avoided sales (i.e. 290 BkWh).
Speak; g in terms of avoided sales, Green Lights can prevent 232 million tons of CO2, or 4%
of the national total7; 1.7 million tons of SO2, or 7% of the national total* and; 900,000 tons of
r 4% of the national total9.
In addition to preventing the emission of air pollutants, saving a kilowatt-hour of
e •ctricity with energy-efficient lighting reduces the environmental damage caused by electricity
gt teration. Energy-efficiency reduces the damage caused by the mining and transportation of
fui s (stripmine damage, acid mine drainage, natural gas leakage, etc.) and the disposal of utility
wanes (boiler ash, scrubber waste, spent nuclear fuel, etc.).
1 EPA chose to use 1988 as the reference year for our Green Lights calculations as 1988 was the most current year for which
ttnfirmed data existed on electricity sales and emissions.
2 DOEVE1A, Electric Power Monthly. July 1990. Table 40 (Annual Series).
3 E"RI Journal, "Lighting the Commercial World,* p.6, December 1989.
4 EP.ll Journal, lighting the Commercial World", p.6, December 1989.
5 DOl /E1A, Electric Power Annual. 1988. Table 18.
6 Derivi d from DOE/EIA Annual Energy Review. 1989. and Radian Corporation, Emissions and Cost Eslimates for Globally
Sign -m Anthropogenic Emissions of NOx N2O. CH4. and CO2. Prepared for EPA/OPPE May 1990.
7 Cait». Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Trends W, p.95.
8 EPA, Of Ice of Air Quality Planning and Standards, March 1990, "National Air Pollutant Emission Estimates", p.2.
9 EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning Standards, March 1990, "National Air Pollutant Emission Estimates', p.2
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How Much Pollution Could You Prevent With Energy-Efficient Lighting?
Total US Electricity Sales from all sources 1988 (million kWh) [1]
Percentage of Sales Caused by Lighting [2]
Percentage that Lighting Energy Consumption Could be Cut [3]
•Electricity sales that could be avoided (million kWh)
National Average Emission Rates per kWh sold (1988) [4]
C02(lb)
S02(g)
NOx(g)
2,578,062.0
22.5
50.0
290,032.0
1.6
5.3
2.8
'Pollution Prevention Potential (million short tons)
C02
S02
NOx
232.0
1.7
0.9
Total US Emissions of Air Pollutants (million short tons) [5.6]
C02 (1988 data)
802(1988 data)
NOx (1988 data)
5,296.5
22.8
21.8
• "Percentage of Total US Emissions that could be Prevented with Energy Efficient Lighting
C02 4.4
S02 7.4
NOx 4.1
Formula*:
•AVOIDED ELECTRICITY SALES - (Total electricity *ale«) x (percentage of U)M tor lighting) * (percentage cut by energy-efficient light"-j)
••POLLUTION PREVENTION POTENTIAL - (Avoided electricity Bale*) * (National Average Emtoion RatM par kWh)
—AVOIDED EMISSIONS - (Pollution prevention potantial)I (Total US air pollutant emieeion*)
Source*:
1. DOE/EIA. Electric Power Monthly. July 1880, Table 40 (Annual Seriee).
2. Electric Power Re*eareh metitute, 'Lighting the Commercial World1, p. t.
3. Electric Power Re*earch Institute, 'Lighting the Commercial World', p. 6.
4. Derived from DOE/EIA 'Annual Energy Review, 1M9*. and Radian Corporation.
•Emlcalone and Coet Eetrmate* tor Globally Significant Anthropogenic Emteelon* of NOx. N2O, CH4, and CO2.
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