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Technology Update: Lighting Facts Label
Jan 15 2010
The rapid growth of LEDs has put an increasing number of new products on the market for various lighting applications. To maintain quality control, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has established the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Quality Advocates program and introduced the Lighting Facts label to help manufacturers, retailers and distributors, lighting professionals and consumers make informed decisions.
While many new LED products live up to the technology’s energy savings potential and performance attributes, DOE is concerned that some products do not, which can impede acceptance of the new technology. To avoid this situation, DOE urges lighting manufacturers to participate in the SSL Quality Advocates program. Participating manufacturers pledge to report accurate and consistent product performance results through the program, and agree to include the Lighting Facts label on their product package or in product literature. To verify the data on a Lighting Facts label, manufacturers submit evidence of testing by an independent testing lab. Utilities, lighting designers, specifiers and energy-efficiency organizations can use the label to compare products against manufacturer claims and against similar products. The label shows performance test results from LM-79 for each product in five areas — lumens, lumens per watt, watts, correlated color temperature and color rendering index.
The label may appear only on LED lighting, which includes self-contained replacement lamps and full luminaire products, not packaged LED devices. Only products that are registered and listed on the Lighting Facts products list may use the Lighting Facts label.
For more information, visit lightingfacts.com.
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