Currently there is a minimal selection of ENERGY STAR qualified products available at California showrooms (less than one percent of product inventoried). The key lighting manufacturers that supply these showrooms have just recently voiced a commitment to venture into this arena as a result of the Phase One Executive Committee meetings in 2001 and 2002 funded by EPA.

As stated earlier, through the Committee process, they have specified assistance with R&D funding as a method to solidify their participation. This PIER project will entice these manufacturers who produce the traditional mid-level and high-end lighting fixtures to venture into the currently non-existent ENERGY STAR showroom market.

This project will provide funding to those selected manufacturers who agree to research, develop and test products meeting the ENERGY STAR criteria. The distribution of the end product within the State of California will be a primary criterion for the selection of participating manufacturers. Using data from a fixture usage baseline study conducted in 1998, savings calculation estimates for this project are as follows:

• three hour average per day run time at 365 days per year = 1,095 hours per year for high-use fixtures.
• 10 year average life of fixture (very conservative for a fixture life).
• 11.5 cent average price per kWh.

Each fixture would reduce energy use by approximately 75 percent. Using the figure of 20,000 new ENERGY STAR fixtures being sold in the California market in year 1, consumers will save in excess of 2 million kWh per year and approximately one megawatt of electric demand.

For typical high-use fixtures, by replacing a 120-watt incandescent fixture with a 30-watt ENERGY STAR fixture a consumer would realize savings of approximately $11.33 per year and $113.30 over the proposed life of the fixture. If a projected 20,000 fixtures enter the market the first year as a result of this Program, California residents would realize savings of over 226 million dollars on their electric bills in the next ten years.

Once the products are developed and commercially available the market penetration could easily be tracked through the manufacturers' ordering and shipping records that will be obligatory through the selection process.