Smart Policies for Smart Appliances
Communique from IRHMA Smart Appliance Workshop
Nobel Prize in Physics to SSL inventors
The IEA 4E SSL Annex congratulates Professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for their joint award of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for developing blue-light LEDs that enables general illumination white-light LED products.
Policy Guidelines for Electric Motor Systems
EMSA published the Policy Guidelines for Electric Motor Systems on 7 October 2014 at the Motor Summit.
LEDs and Health Aspects: SSL Annex Announces Comprehensive Report
Starting in 2011, the SSL Annex launched a study to review all of the major health-related literature associated with LED lighting. In 2014, the SSL Annex published a comprehensive review of this literature summarising the human health impacts of SSL.
LEDs Can Drastically Reduce Environmental Impact of Lighting: SSL Annex Lifecycle Assessment Report
Today, the IEA 4E SSL Annex, supported by ten national governments, announced the publication of a comprehensive review of all the current life-cycle assessment studies on Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps and luminaires compared with conventional lighting technologies.
Worldwide comparison of 110 LED testing laboratories: Results Presented
Today, the governments of ten countries announced the publication of the world’s largest interlaboratory comparison on solid state lighting (SSL). This project compares the ability of 110 laboratories worldwide to test Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps and luminaires. The outcome of this large-scale interlaboratory comparison will help governments and manufacturers around the world ensure that new LED products sold to consumers and companies are of high quality and meet the claimed performance.
Updated report on Energy Standards & Labelling programs throughout the world in 2013 now available
A comprehensive, updated report on worldwide Energy Standards and Labelling programs commissioned by the Australian Governments Department of Industry, and prepared by Energy Efficient Strategies, Australia with assistance from Maia Consulting, Australia, has been released. Download
Smart Appliance Workshop
The IEA 4E Electronic Devices and Networks Annex (“EDNA”) will hold a Smart Appliance Workshop in Korea on 4 November 2014. The workshop will serve to introduce EDNA to the smart appliance industry and explore ways
Network Standby book now available on IEA website
The publication “More Data, Less Energy: Making network standby more efficient in billions of connected devices” has been published on the IEA website and can be viewed via the following link. View Publication
IEA to launch Network Standby book July 2, 2014
The launch of this publication will take place at 13:30 Paris time on 2 July, 2014 via webinar presented by the IEA Executive Director and the Director of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology. Read the introduction here….
4E helps IEA to track Clean Energy Progress
4E analysis of appliance trends has been used by the IEA in it’s latest report: Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2014 which examines progress in the development and deployment of key clean energy technologies. This Energy Technology
EMSA Efficient Electric Motors Workshop, 5 June 2014, Sydney
EMSA invites industry representatives and energy efficiency consultants to participate in the Efficient Electric Motors Workshop.
EDNA Inaugural Meeting Held
The newly formed IEA 4E Electronic Devices and Networks Annex (“EDNA”) held its first meeting on 14 May 2014 in Utrecht, Netherlands. At the meeting the official member countries agreed: The Netherlands (Hans-Paul Siderius) was appointed
Distribution transformers benchmarking report published
The international comparison of the energy performance of distribution transformers and associated MEPS levels is now available. This report shows key differences in the spread of product performance in Australia, Canada, India, the Republic of Korea, and the USA. It also examines and compares variations in the scope and stringency of national minimum performance levels and other policies.
Workshop – Household devices as key to nearly zero energy buildings?
Austria – June 04, 2014
Dishwashers benchmarking report published
The benchmarking report discussing the international comparison of the energy performance of dishwashers in nine countries/regions is now available. It examines variations in the scope and stringency of national minimum performance levels and other policies and shows key differences in product performance between countries over the 1996-2012 period.
Bright Spark Issue 5 now available
The latest issue (March 2014) of the 4E newsletter “Bright Spark” is now available for viewing. Read Now
EDNA Annex Created
The International Energy Agency’s 4E initiative has created its newest “annex” targetting the growing energy use from communications networks and networked equipment. The newly formed Electronic Devices and Networks Annex (“EDNA”) will cover most types of
IEC 60034-30-1 (IE code) with IE4 definition now published
The IEC published the new standard IEC 60034-30-1 with efficiency classes of line operated AC motors on 6 March 2014.