The goal of this project is to determine how the PIER Lighting Research Program can best translate its successes into workable code and standards proposals. The emphasis will be to identify efforts that are likely to have the largest energy savings and/or demand reduction potential.

Heschong-Mahone Group is leading the research and development work for this project.

This project meets the PIER Goal of Improving the Reliability/Quality of California's electricity by improving energy efficiency standards for lighting systems, which will reduce demand on the system. This project shall analyze how the Program results can translate its successes into workable code and standards proposals. The objectives will be to:

• Evaluate all Program lighting research efforts, and map the path from each research outcome into the codes and standards arena.
• Identify the most code-ready research outcomes and recommend steps to adoption, and identify those that may require additional R&D before they can enter the code process.
• Identify lighting codes and standards problems which require additional R&D, such as outdated lighting industry metrics which are referenced by codes.

These objectives will be met through deliverables that identify the code-ready research outcomes, and that lay out the process for carrying them forward into standards adoption (a separate process beyond the scope of this PIER Program).

The long-range benefits of PIER research depend on widespread adoption of research results into practice. Energy codes and standards offer one of the most universal mechanisms for doing this, because all new construction must comply with these standards. Not all R&D results, however, are appropriate for direct adoption as code requirements.

Those that are appropriate need to be guided into the standards development and adoption process, which is different from normal product marketing channels. This project shall focus on achieving the greatest adoption potential for the most promising of this Program's R&D efforts.