Velleman Compact fluorescentlamps(CFL) - Manual (Page 5)

Efforts to encourage adoption
Due to the potential to reduce electric consumption and pollution various organizations have
encouraged the adoption of CFLs and other efficient lighting. Efforts range from publicity to
encourage awareness, to direct handouts of CFLs to the public. Some electric utilities and local
governments have subsidized CFLs or provided them free to customers as a means of reducing
electricity demands (and so delaying additional investments in generation).
At the meeting of the Ecodesign Regulatory Committee in Brussels on December 8, 2008, the
European Union Member States experts approved the European Commissions’ proposals for a
regulation progressively phasing out incandescent bulbs starting in 2009 and finishing at the end of
2012 as shown below. By switching to energy saving bulbs, EU citizens will apparently save almost
40 TWh (almost 11 million European households electricity consumption), which may lead to a
reduction of about 15 million tons of CO
2
emission per year.
All the required information about a particular CFL lamp can be found on our packaging.