European Lamp Companies Federation

ELC CELMA LED Forum at Light and Building Fair on 14th April 2010

The European Lighting Industry - ELC representing the lamp manufacturers, and CELMA representing luminaire and luminaire component manufacturers -, organized on 14 April April 2010 the first joint CELMA / ELC LED Forum hosted by ZVEI during the Light + Building Fair in
Frankfurt.

The Forum was attended by 200 participants with representatives from the European Commission, officials from authorities inside and outside the EU, representatives of Energy Agencies, lighting press and CEOs from the lighting industry and Lighting Associations from several regions of the world.

The presentors gave their views on LED lighting in four sessions and demonstrated that lighting with LED lamps, modules & luminaires is a viable choice.

Session 1 – Setting the scene by the European Commission
Session 2 – State of the art for LED luminaires
Session 3 – State of the art for LED lamps & LED modules
Session 4 – How standardisation and other initiatives can help to fulfil customers’ expectations with LED lighting solutions.

Presentations

Introduction	Andreas Ludwig	CELMA
Energy Efficiency in Lighting and project of EU Quality Charter for LED Lighting	Paolo Bertoldi	European Commission
Status of LED in Ecodesign	András Tóth	European Commission
Features and Benefits of LED Luminaires	Allan Horn	CELMA/ELC
CELMA guide to LED Luminaire design	Steffen Holz	CELMA/ELC
Photometric data of LED Luminaires	Tommy Goven	CELMA/ELC
State of the art LED lamps	Joep Rooijmans	CELMA/ELC
State of the art LED Modules	Peter Besting	CELMA/ELC
Standardization of LEDs	Franco Rusnati	CELMA/ELC
Breakthrough technology	James Hooker	CELMA/ELC
Initiatives to promote LED adoption	Allan Horn	CELMA/ELC
Conclusions	Jan Denneman	ELC

ELC conference on Energy Efficient Lighting during the EUSEW 2009

The ELC organised a conference on Energy Efficient Lighting during the European Union Sustainable Energy Week in 2009. The ELC conference took place on Monday 9th February 2009 in room S1 in Charlemagne Building (170 Rue de la Loi, 1049 Brussels) from 09.30 until 12.00.

The aim of the ELC conference was to present several sectors where lighting is developing new technologies that comply with energy efficiency requirements (domestic, street, office and industry lighting). The conference focused on presenting the current solutions that lighting can bring in the field of energy efficiency, as well as the challenges present in this area.

As first, Mr Jan Denneman - president of the ELC - held a presentation with the title "Energy efficiency in the European lighting industry: our efforts to make the switch". He spoke about the importance of lighting in moving to a low carbon economy, the barriers to change, the strategy of the lighting industry and finally about an EU co-funded pilot project “Bottom up to Kyoto”, which is coordinated by ELC and aiming at helping three Central and Eastern European municipalities to switch to energy efficient street and office lighting systems.

As next presentor Mr András Tóth - European Commission, DG TREN, Policy Officer in Unit D/3 - spoke about the EU legislative instruments for lighting. In his presentation, he gave a detailed overview on the area of Commission's Energy Efficiency Action Plan and the relevant EU legislations. He spoke - among others - about legislations on energy labelling, ecolabelling for lightbulbs and Ecodesign of Energy Using Products.

The last presentation was delivered by Ms Mariangiola Fabbri - Energy Policy Officer, WWF - under the title "Energy Efficient lighting: an NGO perspective". She focused on the difference between the potentially possible and the actually planned energy savings by applying the recent policies. She raised the question, whether it is possible to achieve bigger saving than the policy will induce, and what is needed for that.

Following the presentations, a very lively panel discussion took place, which offered the audience an excellent insight into energy efficient lighting issues - potential energy savings, achievable savings, technological trends, customer preferences, market surveillance, etc. - seen from the perspective of the European Commission, environmental and consumer protection NGOs as well as the lighting industry.

Welcoming guests at EUSEW 2009
(Gerald Strickland - former ELC Secretary General - to the right)

Panelists at EUSEW 2009
(in front middle from left: Ms Mariangiola Fabbri, Mr Jan Denneman, Mr András Tóth)

The ELC participates in EuroparlTV live debate

The Secretary General of the ELC, Gerald Strickland, participated on the 16th of September in a live debate on EuroParlTV, the new web TV of the European Parliament with the topic “Energy Saving and Public Lighting”. The other participants included Jan Březina (a member of the European Parliament from the Czech Republic, and member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy), as well as Isabelle Corten (an expert in Public Lighting from the Municipality of Brussels). Mr. Strickland stressed the importance of high quality lamps in reducing electricity consumption in public lighting and the commitment of ELC member companies for bringing energy efficient street lighting solutions on the market. To access the EuroParlTV website click here.

From the left: Jan Březina (MEP) and Gerald Strickland (ELC Secretary General)

Second Global Lamp Forum (GLF) in Tokio 4^th of July

Some of the GLF conclusions:

Define relevant performance aspects of a "Global Standard for CFLi".
Come to a global position on collection and recycling of mercury containing lamps.
Ensure that the debate on health effects of mercury of CFLi lamps is based on reliable
scientific data

Jan Denneman (ELC President), Gerald Strickland
(ELC Secretary General), Jelma Representatives

European Environmental Bureau conference on lamps

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), a federation of over 142 environmental citizens’ organisations in the EU, has organised a conference "Mercury containing lamps under the spotlight" on 27 June 2008 in Brussels. The programme of the conference included presentations from the European Commission on the actions related to energy saving lamps, lamp manufacturers (General Electric, Osram, Philips and Sylvania) and the Secretary General of the ELC on the content of mercury in lamps, as well as Member States and experts on lamp collection and recycling issues. The presentations were followed by a panel discussion.

The ELC member companies have committed to reducing quantities of mercury in energy efficient lamps below the limits currently required under the RoHS Directive. Speaking at a conference, the ELC Secretary General Mr. Gerald Strickland has pointed out that different mercury limits are needed depending on the technical characteristics of each lamp group concerned (such as technology, phosphor, size, length, wattage, lifetime, production process, dosing technology, purpose, etc). If mercury limits are too ambitious, this could for instance result in a reduction of the lamp’s life, leading to higher mercury consumption overall.

If you would like to download the ELC or our member companies’ presentations, please click on the following links:

"Industry position", Mr Gerald Strickland, ELC Secretary General

"Mercury containing lamps under the spotlight: the Philips perspective", Mr Frank Altena, Sustainability Officer, Philips

"The future of Hg-containing lamps", Mr Laszlo Balazs, Manager, GE

From the left: Mr. Gerald Strickland (ELC Secretary General),
Mr. Gernot Schnabl (European Commission),
Mr. Stefan Scheuer (EEB and Chair)

From the left: Mr. Rudy Geens (Havells Sylvania), Mr. Gernot Schnabl (European Commission),
Mr. Stefan Scheuer (EEB and Chair), Mr. Frank Altena (Philips Lighting), Mr. Wolfgang Gregor (Osram)

ELC at the Light+Building 2008 in Frankfurt

The 5th Light+Building trade fair was held from 6 to 11 April 2008 in Frankfurt am Main. All ELC member companies were represented at this international trade fair for architecture and technology. A wide range of products and services in the fields of lighting, electrical engineering and building automation was presented by over 2000 exhibitors.

Energy efficiency was the main theme of the fair, and it was fully supported by all ELC member companies, which showed a huge variety of energy-saving lighting solutions. At the same time, technology was well combined with design. Solid State Lighting (LEDs) was to be seen at almost every exhibition stand.

ELC at the press conference with the Professional Lighting Designer's Association (PLDA)

From the left: Mr. Axel Baschnagel (Vice President of the ELC Board),
Ms. Barbara Manka (ELC Project Manager),
Mr. Gerald Strickland (ELC Secretary General)

European Union Sustainable Energy Week 2008

The ELC has recently participated in the EUSEW 2008 (European Union Sustainable Energy Week 2008) which has been held in Brussels, from 28th January to 1st February.

It has organised a conference which, under the title "Driving energy efficiency in the lighting market", has analyzed the challenges that the lighting industry is facing nowadays with a view to achieving high energy efficiency levels. The efforts that the lighting industry is doing, as well as the EU legislation that can contribute towards this, have been presented.

Gerald Strickland, Secretary General of the ELC; Andras Toth, Policy Officer in DG TREN; and Stéphanie Mittelham, Secretary General of CELMA, chaired this conference that took place on Wednesday 30th January.

If you want to download their presentations, please click on the following links:

"Energy efficiency in the European lighting industry", by Gerald Strickland, ELC, Secretary General

"European legislative instruments, a tool to achieve energy efficiency", by Andras Toth, Unit D/3, DG TREN

"How we deploy our message in the EU", by Stéphanie Mittelham, CELMA, Secretary General

For more information, go to the EUSEW 2008 official website: http://www.eusew.eu