Lighting accounts for a substantial part of elect ricity use in non-residential buildings. Despite a number of significant energy-efficient lighting intiatives from certain Member States and the European Commission (DG TREN~1), the most recent estiamtions tend to show that the potential for energy savings remains high in Europe. DG TREN decided to react by launching on 7 February 2000 the European GreenLight Programme. This programme encourages non-residential electricity consumers (public or private) to commit towards the European Commission to install energy-efficient lighting technologies in their facilities wherever (1) it is profitable, and (2) lighting quality is maintained or improved. Such a programme benefits from promising prospects and the active support from the National Energy Agencies of 14 European countries. These Agencies are starting to recruit the first programme participants with the objective of getting 60 signatures within the first months.
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