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On a meeting at the IEA in Paris in July 2007 an initiaive to establish an Implementing ageement on on Efficient Electrical End-use Equipment was launched.

The Implementing Agreement on Efficient Electrical End-use Equipment (4EIA) will specifically focus on electrical appliances and end-use equipment. Industrial and commercial equipment as well as equipment mainly used in households is included. The 4EIA will focus on appliances that contribute the most to the total electricity consumption, such as electric motors and lighting, and will include technologies with fast growing markets shares such as stand-by and set-top boxes.

Initially 5 Annexes will be established within the framework of the 4EIA:

• Bench marking
• Standby
• Set-top boxes
• Lighting
• Motor Systems

So far ,Austria, Denmark, Australia, UK Korea, Japan, Czech Rep., France, Netherlands, Sweden, Slovak Rep., European Commission, USA, Switzerland, Canada are part of the initiative.

The Interim Excecutive Committee is chaired by Ture Hammar, Danish Energy Authority, and Hans-Paul Siderius, SenterNovem (NL). (2007-09-09 Kim S. Jensen)

GEEA product registration outsourced to Homespeed (www.homespeed.org)
GEEA will focus its resources on the technical work regarding the development of ambitious criteria, which is used as a basis for procurement requirements in various contexts. Subsequently the registration of products is outsourced to the Homespeed database (www.homespeed.org). At this online-database you can find - amongst others - the registered products and the contacts where to register products for the Homespeed database. The GEEA label can be used for products that comply with the GEEA criteria valid at the date of manufacturing.(revised Jan. 2007)

The Japanese Government urges manufactures to produce energy efficient products
See article from the Daily Yomiuri, October 6 here.
(October '05 Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat)

Call for Papers:
International Conference on Energy Efficiency in
Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL'06)
The European Commission DG JRC is announcing a Call for Papers for the International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL'06),whic will take place in London i June 2006. More information here.
(October '05) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat)

International conference "Action on 1 Watt"
The Danish Energy Authority, the Danish Electricity Saving Trust and the Association of Danish Electric Distribution Companies are organising the conference the international conference "Action on 1 Watt", which takes place on 9th and 10th March 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark. More information on www.action1watt.com.
(10.12.04) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

New chairman of the GEEA board
Adrie van de Water, Novem (NL) who has been chairman of the GEEA board since January 2003, is resigning from the board due to a new work assignment at Novem. The board has elected Peter Cunz, Swiss Federal Office for Energy, as new chairman. Hans-Paul Siderius is now representing Novem on the GEEA board. Adrie van de Water regrets the short period of chairmanship and is confident that the new chairman will steer GEEA into new and exciting directions and wishes him all the best in doing so. (06.03.04) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

Use the GEEA criteria and database
The GEEA board invites other organisations and institutions to use the criteria and data, which is developed by GEEA. A simple procedure has been developed - read this document.
(19.01.04) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

GEEA mission statement
Read the about the background for GEEA, and learn why and how the organisation works. Much has changed since 1991 when GEEA was first established by the EnR. Read more in the mission statement.
(19.01.04) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

Energy+ the Final Event
- will take place February 25, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-12:30p.m, at the Hometech International trade fair in Cologne, Germany - more information in this document
(02.002.04) Adrie van de Water, Novem

Energy saving extension cord with power outlets for computers
The Danish Electricity Saving Trust and Danish Technological Institute have developed a new extension cord with power outlets for computers, which automatically switches off connected devices such as monitor, modem, printer, scanner, speakers etc. The saving device can typically save from 10 to 40 Euros per year of unnecessary electricity consumption for standby functions. Retail price is about 10 to 15 Euros.

The power switching is controlled by the USB port of the computer. Only difference from a normal extension cord is a thin cord connected to the computer's USB port. It is convenient for both offices and homes.

More information on the saving device can be obtained from the Danish Electricity
Saving Trust, e-mail esf@elsparefonden.dk.
(22.01.04) Jan Viegand, charirman, GEEA's IT Equipment working group)

Criteria for 2005 published
The 2005 GEEA criteria have now been published - as have the product sheets for 2004.
The 2004 application forms will be updated and made available shortly.
See Criteria.
(16.01.04) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

New date for IEA's nternational Workshop on Saving Energy in Set-Top Boxes
The International Workshop on Saving Energy in Set-Top Boxes will take place 27 - 28 May 2004 at the International Energy Agency in Paris, France.
More information on: http://library.iea.org/dbtw-wpd/workshop.aspx?id= 103
From Alan Meier, IEA (17.12.03)

New GEEA board member for Germany
Stephan Kolb will take over as board member for Germany/Deutsche Energie Agentur(dena) from Alexandre Schlaffer from December 1, 2003.
(28.11.03) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

New GEEA board member for Sweden
Heini-Marja Suvilehto has been appointed as the representative of STEM/Sweden on the GEEA board. Heini-Marja Suvilehto has been on the board once before in 2001 - 02.
(20.10.03) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

IEA's "International Workshop on Saving Energy in Set-Top Boxes"
The workshop - which was scheduled to take place November 20-21 2003 at the IEA in Paris has been delayed until early 2004.
More information on: http://www.iea.org/workshop/2003/set-top/index.htm
From Alan Meier, IEA (13.10.03)

New date for IEA's "International Workshop on Saving Energy in Set-Top Boxes"
The workshop - which originally was to take place on September 11-12 2003 - will be held on November 20-21 2003 at the IEA in Paris.

More information on: http://www.iea.org/workshop/2003/set-top/index.htm
From Alan Meier, IEA (03.09.03)

New TV-criteria!
The board has approved the new criteria for TV's - which will come into effect imediately.

The proposal for the TV criteria consists of two parts:

Part I
Criteria for standby modes The model to be registered for the GEEA-label should comply with the following criteria:

Part II
Compliance with the industry self-commitment The manufacturer of the model to be registered should have signed the industry self-commitment, and should no be noted for failing to meet the self commitment (according to article 5.3 of the self commitment).

The citeria will be valid until December 31, 2004.
See product sheet here (pdf)
(25.07.03) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

The market share of LCD monitors is growing fast

Read article form the German IT Business News.
Translated by Michael Jäkel, GED, e-mail: jaekel@abakus-trier.de (01.07.03)

IEA study shows how to save energy by using efficient domestic appliances
Electrical appliances are the fastest growing energy users, after automobiles in OECD countries. Despite the existence of major energy efficiency programs in OECD countries, residential electrical appliances account for 30% of electricity consumption and 12% of greenhouse gas emissions. Based on existing appliances policy, demand is projected to grow 13% by 2010 and 25% by 2025.

A new study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) "Cool Appliances: Policy Strategies for Energy-Efficient Homes," released in Paris on April 16, shows that additional efficiency gains of up to 30% are possible by targeting the least life-cycle cost for appliances from 2005 onwards as the minimum efficiency performance standard.

By adopting such standards, IEA Member countries could save some 322 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2/year by 2010 and 642 TWh of electricity by 2010. In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, this would be the equivalent of removing over 100 million cars from IEA roads. Targeting the least life-cycle cost for residential appliances could achieve up to 30% of IEA Member countries targets under the Kyoto Protocol.

Read press release here (pdf, 63KB)
Read more on the IEA website here

From Benoit Lebot, IEA/EE (16.04.03)

CeBIT Fair 2003 in Hannover
- Notes on the new developments and trends in IT Electronics as presented at the CeBIT Fair 2003 in Hannover.

Wireless LAN
One of the big themes at CeBit this year were solutions using wireless LAN connections. In addition to the “traditional” usage to simply connect PC via air-linked systems, the vision of a total connected wireless household becomes more and more true. At the CeBIT the focus was on:

• Broadcasting services with a central PC as a multimedia platform and some clients like TV panels. This idea (well presented by Microsoft even some time before the CeBit) might cause the development of having simply, plain screens for watching TV, displaying information instead of having TVs with recording and receiving functionalities. Recording, playing and editing movies will be done by the central PC (or set top box).
  
  
• Security and maintaining systems like controlling the heating systems or some electrical devices. A “very” old example for using this technique is the example of the refrigerator that will order the milk directly via internet. After all discussions if this would be useful or not in the past times I feel that we now are at a point were we will find more useful applications that will be accepted by industry and consumer.
  
  
• Bringing Internet services and shared resources to any place at the house (and it’s nearer surrounding area) for mobile client solutions like Notebooks, PDA and Tablet PC.

For GEEA this brings up the challenge to look for this market because most of these routers and access points will be online 24 hours a day.

Operating Systems
Linux was a very important theme at this CeBit. Most of the biggest companies from PC industry (except one, of course) were presenting some new solutions for or with Linux. Most developments Linux were done for server applications and some great efforts were made to enhance the connectivity between different hardware platforms. But also the number of Linux based applications in daily live is increasing very fast. Linux will be found (and in some cases already can be found) in PDAs, mobile phones, game consoles and so on. Linux as an alternative desktop solution is still not the rule (and I think it will not become so in the next view years). Microsoft was presenting their new server OS Windows Server 2003 with a lot of enhancements for the administration.

From GEEA’s point of view it is important that all actual operating systems are supporting Power management systems. While Microsoft’s Windows XP is well performing the ACPI functionality (with compliant hardware) Linux is still mostly working with APM. There are some first ACPI modules that can be used (in a very BETA state) but the full ACPI support will be included in the kernel generation.

Monitor/TV
Quite a lot of bigger screens were shown at the fair. Most progress in screen size was shown for LCD-TVs. CRT-TV are definitely at the end, regarding screen size; sets with screens larger than about 35 inch become too clumsy and heavy. Very interesting were TV’s based on LCD technique; screen sizes up to 40 inch were presented. New models have a very short switching time (about 16 ms; see latest c’t article) , so that you will have very sharp pictures even on fast movements of the picture. Philips showed a prototype of a new backlight that offers a stable white-point for LCD-TVs, which is not feasible with current backlight options.
There were also some plasma screens presented, but sizes were not (much) bigger than last years (about 40 to 42 inch). According to manufacturers life time is not a limiting factor any longer for both LCD and Plasma screens.

From an energy efficiency point of view, LCD-TV has large advantages; although some manufacturers claim that their Plasma panels have become more efficient (i.e. consuming about 280 W instead of 400 W), LCD screens are more efficient, A consequence of flat screens, whether LCD or Plasma, is that the screen (the display) and the receiving and processing unit are likely to become separate products.

by Michael Jäkel, GED, e-mail: jaekel@abakus-trier.de
and Hans-Paul Siderius, Novem, e-mail: h.siderius@novem.nl
(26.03.03)

Criteria for Monitors revised
Jan Viegand, chairman of the IT-Equipment working group says: "Based on the market situation and industry comments it was previously decided to remove the hard switch criteria for monitors for the 2004-criteria. The alternative would be that many LCD monitors could not comply wiith the criteria. We believe that even though the 2003 criteria were established one year ago, there is no idea in having the hard switch criteria just for 2003. The IT working group has therefore recommend that the criterion re. hard switch criteria is removed from 2003. The deep sleep consumption criteria are unchanged." The GEEA board has approved the revision, which comes into effect as of February 11, 2003. The revised product sheet and application form can be downloaded here. (11.02.03) Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

New chairman of the GEEA board
As PTJ has been replaced by the Deutsche Energie Agentur as the institution which represents Germany on the board of GEEA, Gillian Glaze will also leave the board. Gillian has been a board member since GEEA was established as a foundation in June 2000 and chairman of the board since July of 2001. The board has elected Adrie van de Water, who recently replaced Guus van Hoof as Novems (NL) representative on the board, as new chairman effective January 1, 2003. The Deutsche Energie Agentur has not yet named their representative on the board. (20.12.02)
Kim S. Jensen, GEEA Secretariat

International Workshop "Selling Energy Efficient Appliances"
More and more consumers are looking at low power consumption in order to both save money and the environment when buying electrical devices. This is especially true for household appliances. In many countries this buying criterion is already being integrated in marketing strategies in trade and commerce. In the field of consumer electronics this aspect has, however, so far not been taken into consideration very often.

The Workshop "Selling Energy Efficient Appliances" targeted retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, consumer organisations, consulting institutions, utilities and political decision makers and presented ways of how energy efficiency can be used as a marketing criterion. To this end, speakers from different EU countries presented their experiences with "Energy Efficiency Marketing". Success stories have been checked on their feasibility on national level, interdependencies with political instruments have been revealed and factors for success as well as limits of "Energy Efficiency Marketing" analysed. Political and economical decision makers discussed the perspectives of "Energy Efficiency Marketing" in the future.

The Workshop has been organised by the Berlin Energy Agency. It represented the closing of a project supported by the European Commission for the promotion of energy efficient consumer electronics and the GEEA-label. Together with NOVEM, ADEME, STEM and SFOE and in co-operation with the German consumer advice association (vzbv) the Berlin Energy Agency had informed retailers and consumers about energy efficiency and promoted energy saving devices with targeted actions. The Workshop summarised the outcome of the campaign and served as a forum for the exchange of experiences and new actions.

Documentation international workshop 19.09.02
http://www.berliner-energieagentur.de/data/Tagungsband.zip
Berliner Energieagentur
GmbH Rudolfstr. 9
D - 10245 Berlin
Fax: +49 - (0)30 29 33 30 - 99
Internet: www.berliner-e-agentur.de
Contacts: Kerstin Kallmann Tel.: +49 (0)30 - 29 33 30 - 33
e-mail: Kallmann@berliner-e-agentur.de

Kerstin Kallmann, Berliner Energie Agentur
(02.12.02)

Pilot campaigns in the Netherlands
The first campaign included 13 shops and resulted in the recognition of over 1500 GEEA TVs sold in 3 months. This accounts for 21 % of the total sales of TVs. In turnover it is 31 % of the total for TVs. If we count the sales of TVs which can carry the label in all shops it comes to 4000, or 19 % of total. We celebrated the 1000th GEEA TV. (picture)



It is hard to say whether this was a result of promotion, the euro conversion or some other reason. Yet, in a survey the consumer stated in general that he likes an energy label on consumer electronics and would look for it when it is more known and visible.

The 2nd pilot campaign - a chain of IT stores (70 shops) - will promote the GEEA label in shops and in a fortnightly leaflet which reaches many consumers (estimated by the producers to be over a million) until further notice. There were problems updating the list of GEEA-labelled products due to the new criteria which include on-mode. The few manufacturers that have heard something about the GEEA label do not know about the "Energy Efficiency Index". They rarely - if ever - consider improving their products in this way just because GEEA promotes it. Let's hope this triggers more chains to follow suite. .(07.08.02)
Adrie van de Water, Novem