2. Background
The Commission adopted California's first Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan (Plan or Strategic Plan) on September 18, 2008, as a single roadmap to achieve maximum energy savings across a variety of economic sectors and a number of cross-cutting areas including Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Codes and Standards, Demand Side Management, and Marketing, Education and Outreach. The first version of the Plan included the subject of lighting as part of chapters on the residential and commercial sectors. However, because lighting accounts for approximately one-fourth of California's electricity use, the widespread use of energy efficient lighting across the state is a critical element of the Strategic Plan. Thus, lighting merits the attention and focus of a separate chapter in the Plan rather than a section of another chapter.
Commission Decision (D.) 09-09-047 directed the Energy Division to create a lighting chapter (Chapter). In particular, Energy Division was directed to include specific goals, strategies, and milestones in the Chapter for transformation of the lighting market in California, and to solicit the input of key stakeholders through meetings and/or public workshops. In December 2009, Energy Division launched the process to develop the Chapter with a meeting of stakeholders to address advanced lighting technologies and best practices. Over the course of the next year, Energy Division held five public workshops focused on developing the vision, goals, strategies, and milestones for lighting to achieve the goals of the Strategic Plan. These workshops engaged more than 100 stakeholders from over 60 organizations, representing the State's investor owned utilities (IOUs) and lighting stakeholders such as manufacturers, contractors, labor, technology researchers, environmental groups, local government representatives, and others.1
The Chapter begins by laying out a vision for the California lighting sector: "By 2020, advanced products and best practices will transform the California lighting market. This transformation will achieve a 60-80% reduction in statewide electrical lighting energy consumption by delivering advanced lighting systems to all buildings." The Chapter also establishes a set of goals and the practical outcomes of those goals. The goals touch broadly on the four cornerstones needed to achieve the market transformation vision: public policies for transformation, advancement of best practices, market transformation, and the creation of research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) networks. The specific goals are to:
a. Develop and implement coordinated policies, procedures, and other market interventions that eliminate barriers, accelerate lighting market transformation in California, and provide incentives for best practice lighting technologies and systems.
b. Define and advance best practices for design, installation, operation, and maintenance of integrated systems to include commissioning and tuning in order to achieve sustainable lighting solutions for all spaces.
c. Create widespread end user desire for the purchase and use of best practice lighting technologies and systems.
d. Develop RD&D networks to create, test, and deliver the lighting solutions needed to transform California's lighting market to achieve zero net energy (ZNE) goals.
The Chapter sets out an implementation plan for each goal which articulates specific strategies and specifies near-term, mid-term, and long-term timelines for each strategy. A copy of the Chapter is attached hereto as Attachment A.
1 The stakeholders include the major IOUs (Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), and Southern California Edison Company (SCE)), California Energy Commission (CEC), California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE), California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), The Utility Reform Network (TURN), Natural Resources Defense Counsel (NRDC), and KEMA.
