Topic : Energy Efficient Lights      Resources : Reports   Geographical focus : Regional - ASIA

This report, Phasing in Quality, identifies opportunities to fully implement the Manila Compact. The report begins with an overview of CFL markets and programs in China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Next, the report presents a series of comparative analyses covering the current standards, regulations, testing, labeling, and other performance and quality requirements in effect for CFLs sold in these six nations. Finally, the report recommends initiating an immediate and intensive effort to coordinate existing regional CFL initiatives and to develop a broad-based quality assurance process for CFLs in Asia. The findings presented in this report will be of considerable interest to policy makers and CFL manufacturers. For policy makers, the study presents a detailed comparison of existing CFL standards throughout Asia, as well as the first published estimates of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions that could be achieved by replacing shoddy CFLs sold in Asia with quality CFLs. CFL suppliers will find information about the Asia CFL Quality Charter, an industry grouping that is developing a CFL quality ranking system with a set of performance levels or tiers, a product marking system, and a database of registered CFL products that meet the performance standards.


Document :Phasing in Quality_March 2009.pdf