Here we are on the eve of the EU legislative ban on incandescent lamps and the Sunday Times at last questions the sense of this legislation!
link to article “Dim thinking behind the new lightbulb laws”
Archive for August, 2009
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Sunday Times August 30, 2009
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The Real Price of CFLi Lamps
Supermarket in Shenyang August 2009
If you have been following my commentary on the debate against the ban on incandescent lamps, a question I have raised has been “what will we have to pay for CFLi lamps when there is no choice?” I have just returned from a short business trip to Shenyang, one of the large modern cities in China. While there I took the opportunity to visit a large supermarket to check out what the retail price was for lamps.
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Update on the EuP process for Directional lamps
As many of you are aware, having succeeded in banning the incandescent lamp as of September this year, the process to review Energy Using Products ( EuP) has proceeded to tackle reflector lamps and domestic light fittings. Earlier in the year, between February and May the draft chapters of the report were posted on the website http://www.eup4light.net/. As the PLDA “stakeholder” I went through the chapters critically and produced comment documents for each chapter, these are also on the EUP4Light website. Continue Reading →
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An Tax-Based Approach to Energy Saving
I was at a meeting today organised by the UK knowledge Transfer Network for lighting. Our main topic related to Ultra Efficient Lighting howwever I am not going into this here as I have just written a bunch of stuff on
on that subject. An idea was floated about taxing energy, particularly for lighting, at a punitive rate over a certain threashold. Continue Reading →
