Global Lighting Challenge (GLC) Side Event was held on June 6th, 2017, at China National Conference Center, Beijing, China, which was co-organized by the GLC Working Group (GLC WG) and International SSL Alliance (ISA), as a Side Event of the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM8) and Second Mission Innovation Ministerial (MI-2). This event brought together about 40 respectives from govements of China, America, South korea, Sweden, UAE, Mexico, India, etc., orgnizations (UNEP, IEA, WWF, IPEEC, CSA, etc.), and companies (OSRAM, Ledvance, Sansi, Sengled, Unilumin) to showcase, review, and discuss GLC commitments and endorsements, and around 80 audience attended this meeting.

 

Mr. Xiaoming JIN, Co-Secretary General of ISA, moderated this meeting.

 

Dr. Chad Gallinat, Global Lighting Challenge Coordinator, and Mr. Xiaoming JIN deliverd the welcoming remarks.

 

Mr. Huaiyong ZHAO, Director of Energy Conservation Division, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) gave the framing remarks.

Mark Radka, Chief, Energy Branch at UNEP, gave a keynote speech about Global Lighting Outlook.

 

Dr. Jianlin CAO, former Vice Minister of MOST China, President of ISA, Chair of CSA Advisory Committee introduced the development of China SSL Industry and New commitments to the Global Lighting Challenge from ISA members.

 

 

Ibrahim Baylan, Swedish Minister of Energy, introduced the Swedish Global Lighting Challenge after 1 year.

 

Dr. Thomas Dreier, Global R&D Head of Ledvance, gave LED lighting keynote speech from the Private Sector Perspective.

Saurabh Kumar, Executive Director, Energy Efficiency Services Limited, introduced The future of lighting in India.

 

Ms. Ling LIN, Director of Resource and Environment Branch, CNIS, gave a keynote speech.

 

Panel Discussion 1: Governments’ roles, successes, and lessons

Participants: Benoit Lebot, Executive Director, IPEEC, Dr. Jianlin CAO, former Vice Minister of MOST China, President of ISA, Chair of CSA Advisory Committee, Amal Hamadeh Project Engineer DSM from Ministry of Energy, UAE, and Harry Verhaar, Head of Global Public & Government Affairs, Philips Lighting

Panel Discussion 2: Standards, codes, and testing

Participants: Peter Bennich, Swedish Energy Agency, 4E SSL Annex Chair, Eng. Odon de Buen, Director General, Mexico’s CONUEE, Mr. Pengcheng LI, China National Institute of Standards, Mr. Shuming HUA, National Lighting Test Center, Global Efficient Lighting Center, Mr. Ping WANG, Chief Advisor of China SSL Alliance Standard Committee, and Ms. Irina Rasputnis, SSL Standards and Testing lead, Design Lights Consortium

Panel discussion 3: Lighting Municipalities – A look at Street Lighting Deployment

Participants: Harry Verhaar, Head of Global Public & Government Affairs, Philips Lighting, Mr. Xinfeng WANG, Deputy Mayor of Yiwu City, Matt Petersen, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Los Angeles, Mr. Yinghua WANG, VP of SANS, Mr. Yan SUN, Executive Deputy Secretary General of Technical Evaluation Alliance for Solid State Lighting (TEAS)

 

Panel discussion 4: Efficient Buildings and Sub-national government implementation

Participants: Brian Motherway, Head of Energy Efficiency, IEA, Kihyun Park, Ph.D, Division Head / Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), Debbie Weyl, Manager, Building Efficiency Initiative, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities , Meredydd Evans, Senior Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mr. Johnson SHEN, President of Sengled, Mr. Haolei RONG, DG of Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute.

 

Panel Discussion 5: The future of lighting

Participants: Dr. Chad Gallinat, GLC coordinator, Saurabh Kumar, Executive Director, Energy Efficiency Services Limited, Ms. Ling WU, Leader of China 13th FYP SSL S&T Program experts group, Secretary-General of China SSL Alliance (CSA) , Peter Bennich, Swedish Energy Agency, 4E SSL Annex Chair, Mr. Linping DOU, Secretary-general, China Illuminating Engineering Society (CIES), Ms. Crystal LIN, Business Development & Government Affairs Manager of Osram APAC

 

Fireside Chat on Beyond the Grid

Participants: Mr. Daniel Riley, Senior Official of WWF, Mr. Rongli WANG, VP of Unilumin, Mr. Aiqun LV, Chengxu Electric Group

 

On the second anniversary of the GLC launch, before this meeting, there were twelve Chinese SSL companies have voluntarily submitted commitments totaling 3.29 billion LED Lamps and 5.77 million LED Street Lights in the coming two years (2017-2018) in total. The 12 companies making these commitments (listed in order of submission) are:

·         MLS Co. Ltd.,

·         Shanghai SANSI Electronic Engineering Co. Ltd.,

·         Sengled Optoelectronics Co. Ltd.,

·         Ningbo Klite Electric Manufacture Co. Ltd.,

·         Hangzhou HPWINNER OPTO Corporation,

·         Shenzhen Fluence Technology Co. Ltd.,

·         Hengdian Group Tospo Lighting Co. Ltd.,

·         LEEDARSON Lighting Co. Ltd.,

·         Shanghai Feilo Acoustics Co. Ltd.,

·         Unilumin Group Co. Ltd.,

·         OPPLE Lighting Co. Ltd.,

·         Shanxi Guang Yu LED Lighting Co. Ltd.

The total cumulative energy savings in the coming two years (2017-2018) based on these commitments would be more than 45 billion kWh, which is roughly half of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station annual power generation (93.5 billion kWh in 2016). These energy savings would lead to CO2 emissions reduction of more than 40.5 million tons.

In addition to these 12 companies, a thirteenth, LEDVANCE, announced to sell 2.5 billion LED lamps by 2023. Achieving the goal of selling 2.5 billion LED Lamps by 2023 is estimated to save the equivalent amount of energy typically produced by 75 medium sized coal fired energy plants.

“We made a very conscious choice in pledging this commitment and are very proud in taking part in the Global Lighting Challenge. LED lamps are not only ecologically sensible but also economically. In combination with smart lighting solutions, LED lamps in the current generation have a potential of reducing energy consumption and costs by 90%”, said Thomas Dreier, Global Head of R&D of LEDVANCE. “At LEDVANCE, we have been investing a lot in researching the potential of tomorrow’s LED lamps, which will continue to increase the scope of what is possible in energy efficiency.”