My contribution to the January issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR took a look at the Department of Energy’s recent action on general-service lamp energy standards and its interpretation of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007’s backstop rule.
The column begins:
The Department of Energy recently issued two regulatory rules related to general-service lamps (incandescent/halogen, compact fluorescent and LED) and general-service incandescent lamps.
The first rule negated an Obama administration policy expanding the definition of general-service lamps to include incandescent reflector lamps and several previously exempt lamp types. The second concluded a new rulemaking process for general- service incandescent lamps that proposed no changes to the energy standards. In its rulemaking, the DOE indicated that the January 2020 backstop provision for a higher standard of 45 lumens per watt (W) for all general-service lamps would not be automatically triggered.
Check it out here.
