Lighting

The Alliance and its subsidiary, the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA), recently promoted October’s ENERGY STAR sales tax holidays in Georgia, Virginia and North Carolina. The tax holidays provided consumers in the region with the possibility to save “up front” when buying energy-efficient products, and to save again with lower monthly home energy bills.

Cutting China’s energy intensity index by more than 5 percent over the next three years may seem a daunting task. But a nation-wide energy-efficiency and conservation campaign is helping China achieve its 2010 goals by shifting energy use to the forefront of public awareness.

Having pledged 41.8 billion yuan (USD 6 billion) to the cause this year, the Chinese government has deigned responsible energy use a national priority, and called for all citizens to participate in energy conservation and emissions reduction.

DOE has announced the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Competition (L-Prize™), intended to kick-start development and distribution of highly energy-efficient solid-state lighting (SSL) products to replace two of today’s most common, less efficient lighting products -- the 60-watt A19 incandescent and the PAR 38 halogen incandescent lamp.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Wellinghoff will receive the Charles H. Percy Award for Public Service, named for one of the Alliance’s founders, in recognition of his decades of outstanding public service and his expertise and leadership on energy efficiency as the nation confronts the dual challenge of electricity supply security and climate change.

This year’s Chairman’s Award, whose recipient is chosen by Alliance Board Honorary Chair Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), goes to Philips Electronics, which spearheaded the successful efforts of the Lighting Efficiency Coalition to develop and gain enactment of a revolutionary yet orderly industry-wide phase-out of inefficient lighting under the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007.