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DTU-SSL Annex Seminar

Recent International Research on LED Quality Metrics and New Lighting Regulations in Europe

As LED lighting continues to penetrate lighting markets and take over conventional technologies in all applications, new metrics and research are on-going to address issues of quality and performance.  Policy makers use the new research to help establish lighting policies that promote energy-efficiency and protect consumers and the environment. Since 2010 the IEA 4E Solid State Lighting (SSL) Annex has supported member governments on how to best promote energy-efficient, high-quality LED lighting. The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) worked with the SSL Annex to offer a one-day seminar on 7 October 2019 covering recent research on health and testing, including topics such as temporal light modulation and lifetime. Key aspects of the new EU lighting regulation, including the EPREL database and the new EU energy label which takes effect in September 2021 were also presented.  The meeting agenda and links to the presentations are given below.

Time

Subject

Speaker

9.00

 

9.45

  Registration and breakfast

 

9.45

10.00

 

  Welcome

 

Carsten Dam-Hansen, Senior Scientist, Diode Lasers and LED Systems, DTU Fotonik, Denmark

 

10.00

10.30

IEA 4E SSL Annex Overview: International governments cooperate on SSL health, performance and testing policies

 

David Boughey, Assistant Director – Lighting Energy Efficiency, Department of the Environment and Energy, Australia

 

New research on Health

 

10.30

11.00

Health and environmental effects of LEDs, highlights from the new French Health Authority (ANSES) report

 

Christophe Martinsons, Head of Lighting and Electromagnetic Fields Division, CSTB, France

11.00

11.45

Stroboscopic Visibility Measure (SVM) detection study – Canada/France

 

Jennifer Veitch, Principal Research Officer; National Research Council of Canada

11.45

 

13.00

Lunch break

 

 

Policy Developments in Europe

 

13.00

13.30

New EU ecodesign regulation for lighting – requirements and timing

 

Peter Bennich, Principal Adviser, Energy Efficiency, Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden

13.30

14.00

European product registry database and the new energy label for lighting

 

Michael Scholand, Operating Agent Support, IEA 4E SSL Annex

14.00

 

14.30

Coffee break

 

 

Developments in Product Testing and Metrology

 

14.30

15.00

LED lamp and luminaire lifetime and endurance testing

 

Steve Coyne, Director, Light Naturally, Australia

15.00

15.30

Temporal light modulation; testing of six LED lamp types from EU and Australia

 

Christofer Silfvenius, Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden

15.30

16.15

S025 test method and Interlaboratory Comparison 2017 (goniophotometers), lessons learned

 

Yoshi Ohno, NIST Fellow, Sensor Science Division; NIST, USA

16.15

16.30

Thank you and closing remarks

 

Anne Bay, Danish Lighting Centre, Denmark

16.30

17.00

Visit the Photometric Labs at DTU

 

Carsten Dam-Hansen, Senior Scientist, Diode Lasers and LED Systems, DTU Fotonik, Denmark