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Residential Lighting

At a Glance

Status 
active
Fuel type 
electric
Sector 
residential
Applications 
lighting
Sunset date 
Sep 30, 2023

The residential lighting measure for screw-in lamps, pin-based lamps, and fixtures. With the adoption of the 45 lumen/watt federal standard in July 2022, incandescent and halogen bulbs became non-compliant. The RTF assumes these bulbs would be replaced by LEDs in the marketplace. This update significantly increased the current practice baseline and decreased savings for GSLs and fixtures.

This UES is broken out into three residential lamp types, Screw-Base Lamps, Pin-Base Lamps and Lighting Fixtures. Pin-based and Fixtures were added at the January 2017 RTF meeting. Screw-based measure applications are considered "Proven" and "Active" while Pin-base lamps are currently considered  "Small Saver" and "Active" by the RTF, and Fixtures are considered "Planning" and "Active". All measure applications are contained in one "Residential Lighting" workbook.

 

Workbook

Latest Version

Residential Lighting v11.0

File Residential Lighting v11.0
Updates approved at the September RTF Meeting. Currently undergoing QC.
Date 
Sep 30, 2022
Version number 
11.0

Past Versions

version date document
10.0
Apr 18, 2022
File Residential Lighting v10.0
Updated with 2021 Plan cost effectiveness methodology
9.4
Sep 27, 2021
File Residential Lighting v9.4
Reran through ProCost 3.1.05 to correct for minor error
9.3
Jan 22, 2021
File Residential Lighting v9.3
Small error corrected post-QC.
9.2
Oct 23, 2020
File Residential Lighting v9.2
QC complete. Updated cost to new 2019 price data.
9.1
Sep 16, 2020
File Residential Lighting v9.1
Measure update approved at the September 2020 RTF meeting. Currently undergoing QC.
8.2
Apr 07, 2020
File Residential Lighting UES v8.2
Updated workbook error impacting some current practice application costs. Reduced incremental costs, resulting in some lamps becoming cost-effective.
8.1
Nov 25, 2019
File Residential Lighting v8.1
Workbook for measure approved at September 2019 RTF meeting. QA/QC complete. Savings and costs for several measures changed. Primary reason for changes was update to NEEA data set. No changes to cost-effectiveness.
8.0
Oct 01, 2019
File Residential Lighting v8.0
Workbook for measure as approved at the September 2019 meeting. The workbook is currently undergoing QA/QC review.
7.1
Apr 02, 2019
File Residential Lighting v7.1
QC review complete
7.0
Nov 20, 2018
File Residential Lighting v7.0
Measure updated at the November 2018 RTF meeting. The workbook is currently undergoing QC.
6.1
Apr 04, 2018
File ResLighting_v6_1.xlsm
QC review complete.
6.0
Dec 05, 2017
File ResLighting_v6_0.xlsm
Version corresponds to measure updates approved at the December 2017 RTF meeting. Undergoing QC.
5.2
Aug 08, 2017
File ResLighting_v5.2.xlsm
Errors corrected. Information about changes presented at September 19, 2017 meeting.
5.1
Apr 20, 2017
File ResLighting_v5.1.xlsm
QC review complete.
5.0
Feb 03, 2017
File ResLighting_v5.0.xlsm
Workbook for all residential lighting measures. Approved at January 2017 RTF meeting. Currently undergoing QC.
4.2
Jan 21, 2016
File Residential Lighting Bulbs v4.2
Error Corrected
4.1
Dec 22, 2015
File ResLighting_Bulbs_v4_1.xlsm
QC Review Complete
4.0
Aug 28, 2015
File ResLighting_Bulbs_v4_0.xlsm
Workbook currently undergoing QC.
3.3
Jul 08, 2014
File ResLightingCFLandLEDLamps_v3_3.xlsm
QC review complete.
3.2
May 21, 2014
File ResLightingCFLandLEDLamps_v3_2.xlsm
QC review complete.
3.1
May 14, 2014
File ResLightingCFLandLEDLamps_v3_1.xlsm
Updated to group measures. Currently undergoing QC.
3.0
Jan 07, 2014
File ResLightingCFL_v3_0.xlsm
QC review complete.
2.3
Dec 17, 2013
File ResLightingCFL_v2_3.xlsm
Combined General Purpose and Specialty CFLs using RBSA data. Currently undergoing QC.
3.0
Oct 22, 2013
File ResLightingLED_v3_0.xlsm
QC review complete.
2.12
Aug 26, 2013
File ResLightingLED_v2_12.xlsm
Added direct install, mail-by-request,and give away delivery channels. Currently undergoing QC.
2.0
Feb 20, 2013
File ResLightingLED_v2.xlsm
Updated per recommendation memo; also included all LED applications.
1.3
Dec 11, 2012
File ResSpecialtyCFL_v1_3.xlsm
Updated per recommendation memo. Moved LED downlights to its own workbook.
2.2
Jul 03, 2012
File ResCFLLighting_v2_2.xlsm
Direct mail limit of 10 lamps added .
1.2
Apr 17, 2012
File ResSpecialtyLighting_v1_2.xlsm
Summary sheet added.
2.1
Dec 15, 2011
File ResCFLLighting_v2_1.xlsm
Added an "Any" case for direct mail delivery channels
2.0
Jul 12, 2011
File ResCFLLighting_v2_0.xlsm
Added summary sheet.
1.0
May 12, 2010
File EStarLighting_SpecialtyFY10v1_0.xls
Original savings workbook for LED downlights.
1.5
May 12, 2010
File EStarLighting_ExistingFY10v1_5.xls
Original savings workbook.
Supporting Documents
File Residential Lighting LED Fixtures Research Strategy, December 2017
Nov 14, 2018
This research strategy was updated to remove pin-based lamps, as the RTF moved those lamps to Small Saver category.
File Residential Lighting Baseline Table
Nov 25, 2019
Analysis of the baseline for the 2019 version of the measure. Supporting document for version 8.1 of the workbook.
File Residential Lighting Baseline Table, November 2018 v2.0
Nov 25, 2019
Residential lighting baseline analysis for 2018 version of the measure. Corresponds with v7 of the workbook.

Decisions

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Latest decision

Decision details

Decided 
September 20, 2022
RTF Meeting: September 20, 2022

Approve Measure Updates

Decision Details

Approve updates to the Residential Lighting UES measure as proposed and set the Sunset Date to September 2023 with the following details:

  • For Screw-base lamps
    • Remove Retail and By Request delivery channels (Direct Install remains)
    • Keep the Category at Proven
    • Keep the Status Active
  • For Pin-base lamps
    • Remove Retail for MR lamps (Direct Install remains)
    • Keep Category at Small Saver
    • Keep the Status at Active
  • For Fixtures
    • Keep the Category at Planning
    • Keep the Status at Active
Notes on changes:
  • Recent federal standard of 45 lumens/watt has increased the current practice baseline, decreasing savings for GSL and fixtures.
  • Removed retail & by-request delivery mechanisms for screw-base and pin-base lamps
Decided 
September 09, 2020
RTF Meeting: September 9, 2020

Approved Measure Update

Decision Details

Approve updates to the Residential Lighting measure as proposed and set the Sunset Date to September 30, 2022, with the following details:

  • For screw-base lamps
    • Remove the Unsolicited Mail delivery mechanism
    • Keep the Category at Proven
    • Keep the status at Active
  • For Pin-based lamps:
    • Remove the Unsolicited Mail delivery mechanism
    • Keep the Category at Small Saver
    • Keep the status at Active
  • For Fixtures
    • Keep both the retail and direct install delivery mechanism
    • Remove the linear flush mounts
    • Keep the Category at Proven
    • Keep the status at Active
Decided 
September 24, 2019
RTF Meeting: September 24, 2019

Approved Measure Changes

Decision Details

Approve the updates to the Residential Lighting UES measure as proposed with the application of the 45 lumen/watt standard for general purpose lamps in all states and for the expanded definition of GSLs (DOE Jan. 2017) for WA state, effective January 1, 2020. 

  • For Screw-base lamps: keep Category at Proven, Status at Active, and set the sunset date to 9/30/20
  • For Pin-base lamps: keep Category at Small Saver, Status at Active, and set the sunset date to 9/30/20
  • For Fixtures: keep the Category at Planning, Status at Active, and set the sunset date to 9/30/20
Decided 
November 07, 2018
RTF Meeting: November 7-8, 2018

Approve Measure Updates

Decision Details

Approve the analysis updates for the Residential Lighting UES measure as presented:
For Screw-base Lamps: 

  • Keep the Category at Proven
  • Keep the Status at Active
  • Remove top two lumen bins for Globe lamps

For Pin-Base Lamps:

  • Keep the Category at Small Saver
  • Keep the Status at Active

For Fixtures:

  • Keep the Category at Planning
  • Keep the Status at Active
  • Maintain the existing Research Strategy
  • Remove LDL from specification

For all applications:

  • Set the sunset date to December 31, 2019 to update sales and baseline data
Decided 
July 17, 2018
RTF Meeting: July 17-18, 2018

Approve Methodology Changes

Decision Details

Approve the following methodology for defining lighting competition groups for upcoming measure updates:

  • Use constant delivered lumens to align competing lighting products in current practice baselines.
    • For residential measures, use constant initial delivered lumens.  Limit lifetime of measures to avoid noticeably lower lighting levels.
    • For non-residential measures, use constant mean delivered lumens.
  • Include an additional adjustment factor as needed to reflect typical customer practice where both of the following are true:
    • Products are mostly available in a limited number of discrete wattages
    • Solid evidence that customers do not perceive a reduction in utility from the efficient product, relative to the other technologies in the baseline
  • Consider additional adjustment factors for specific applications to account for differences in lighting quality and distribution as supported by research.
  • Then define the lumen ranges of competing technologies for each measure application.
  • Also normalize the resulting average wattages of the competing technologies.”
Decided 
December 05, 2017
RTF Meeting: December 5, 2017

Approve measure updates

Decision Details

Approve the analysis and Research Strategy for the Residential Lighting UES measure as presented, with the following exceptions:

  • Remove Pin-base Lamps from the Research Strategy
  • Adjust screw-in lamp removal and storage rates as proposed on Slide 26, with an adjustment to the retail storage rate to 15%
  • Adjust analysis to remove the lumen maintenance factor from the competing products 
  • Direct staff to consider an alternative approach before the next update
  • Adjust hours of use for the lamps in non-residential lighting to be consistent with the non-residential lighting midstream UES assumptions
  • Adjust halogen lifetime to 2,000 hours (from the 1,000 hours currently assumed)
  • Change the specification for unsolicited mail to be 4 lamps per household per technology
  • For Screw-base Lamps: 
    • Keep the Category at Proven. Keep the Status at Active.
  • For Pin-Base Lamps:
    • Change the Category to Small Saver. Keep the Status at Active.
  • For Fixtures:
    • Keep the Category at Planning. Keep the Status at Active.
  • For all applications:
    • Set the sunset date to January 31, 2019
Decided 
March 21, 2017
RTF Meeting: March 21, 2017

Approve measure analysis

Decision Details

Adopt savings, cost, and cost-effectiveness of the Retail Integral LED Shop Lights measure using the analysis assumptions as presented and the following baseline definition:

  • Current Practice baseline comprised only of fixtures.
Decided 
March 21, 2017
RTF Meeting: March 21, 2017

Adopt Research Strategy

Decision Details

Adopt Research Strategy for the Pin-base LED Lamps and Integral LED Fixtures applications of the Residential Lighting UES measure as proposed

  • Keep the category at “Planning”
  • Change the status from “Under Review” to “Active”
  • Keep the sunset date at January 31, 2018
Decided 
January 18, 2017
RTF Meeting: January 18, 2017

Approve New Measure

Decision Details

Approve the Residential Lighting Pin-Base Lamps UES measure as presented

  • Change market shares to 5% for TLED and 15% MR16
  • Set the Category to “Planning” 
  • Set the Status to “Under Review”
  • Set the sunset date to January 31, 2018
Decided 
January 18, 2017
RTF Meeting: January 18, 2017

Approve New Measure

Decision Details

Approve the Residential Lighting Fixtures UES measure as presented

  • But change lamp shares to 5% LED for TLED and 15% LED for MR
  • Include T12 lamps in Current Practice for Shop Lights: RTF CAT/staff to come back to RTF with proposal for how to do this.
  • Set the Category to “Planning”
  • Set the Status to “Under Review”
  • Set the sunset date to January 31, 2018
Decided 
January 18, 2017
RTF Meeting: January 18, 2017

Approve Measure Updates

Decision Details

Approve the updates to the Residential Lighting Screw-in Lamps UES measure

  • Keep the Category at “Proven”
  • Keep the Status at “Active”
  • Change the sunset date to January 31, 2018
Decided 
September 22, 2015
RTF Meeting: September 22, 2015

Allocate resource to measure development

Decision Details

Allocate staff resources towards developing a Residential LED Fixture UES Measure and a Residential DHP for New Construction UES Measure.Under the assumption that there is no timeframe for completing the work.

Decided 
August 18, 2015
RTF Meeting: August 18, 2015

Approve measure update

Decision Details

Approve the Residential Lighting: Screw-in Lamps UES measure as presented: Set the category to "Proven"; Set the status to "Active"; Set the sunset date to January 31, 2017.

Decided 
June 16, 2015
RTF Meeting: June 16, 2015

Sunset date extension

Decision Details

Extend the sunset dates for the following UES measures to September 30, 2015:Residential Lighting – LEDs; Residential Lighting – CFLs; Residential Lighting – Specialty CFLs

Decided 
April 23, 2014
RTF Meeting: April 23, 2014

Approve measure update

Decision Details

Approve the LED and CFL lamp measures as presented:Using the proposed measure identification categories (3 room types, 5 lamp types, 3 lumen categories);Set savings to "N/A" for categories without efficient case data;Set the measure category to “Proven”;Set the measure status to “Active”;Set the sunset date to June 2015"

Decided 
October 15, 2013
RTF Meeting: October 15, 2013

Approve measure update with direction for further analysis

Decision Details

Approve the updates to the General Purpose and Specialty CFL proven UES measures with the values for removal, takeback rates, and baseline costs as presented by staff, estimate the median time to 50 percent installation from the failure and installation rate estimates in the RBSA, with categorizations to be determined later and with the possibility of adding categories later, and a change to the sunset date to January, 2017.

Decided 
October 15, 2013
RTF Meeting: October 15, 2013

Approve measure update

Decision Details

Approve the CFL Fixtures UES measure as follows: Change the category to Small Saver, with only a retail delivery mechanism, and a savings value equal to the UES savings of an 800 lumen General Purpose (GP) CFL multiplied by the ratio of the Simple Steps average fixture wattage to Simple Steps average 800 lumen GP CFL wattage (20.1/13.5), and change the sunset date to January, 2017.

Categorization of measures using utility input.

Decided 
August 20, 2013
RTF Meeting: August 20, 2013

Approve measure update

Decision Details

Approve the updates to the residential lighting LED UES measure, with no change to the measure category, status, or sunset date

Decided 
February 20, 2013
RTF Meeting: February 20, 2013

Approve measure update

Decision Details

Approve the LED Integral Lighting UES measure analysis as presented (with changes discussed at meeting) and assign it to the Proven category with Active status and a sunset date of March 1, 2014. Changes discussed at meeting: document measure life, develop hours of use for each measure, remove average measures from workbook, and adjust costs to reflect measure-specific baseline costs.

Decided 
December 11, 2012
RTF Meeting: December 11, 2012

Table decision and wait further analysis

Decision Details

Table a decision on the LED downlights UES measure to allow further examination of LED cost data.

Decided 
December 11, 2012
RTF Meeting: December 11, 2012

Approve measure update

Decision Details

Adopt the updated analysis for the specialty compact fluorescent (CFL) UES measure and change its status to Active with a sunset date of January 1, 2014.

Decided 
April 17, 2012
RTF Meeting: April 17, 2012

Change measure status to under review

Decision Details

Approve Residential Specialty CFL and LED Downlights UES measure status to under review. The review should consider including PAR38 and MR16 lamp types and it should consider separating the CFL's and LED's into two separate measure workbooks.

In phase II of its UES measure reviews project, the RTF will attempt to meet the recommendations in the recommendation memo.

Decided 
April 17, 2012
RTF Meeting: April 17, 2012

Set measure to Under Review

Decision Details

RTF approved the residential specialty CFL and LED downlights status as under review, adding that two lamp technologies are to be included in the review, PAR 30 and MR 16, and directing the review to consider the potential for identifying two separate measures.

Decided 
August 30, 2011
RTF Meeting: August 30, 2011

Approve measure update

Decision Details

The RTF approves the Provisional UES of Direct Mail of Specialty CFL's limited to requested lamps only, a limit of 10 lamps per request, and with a sunset date of August 30, 2013.

Decided 
August 30, 2011
RTF Meeting: August 30, 2011

Approve measure updates

Decision Details

The RTF approves the Direct Mail of Standard CFL UES as proposed, with a limit of 10 lamps per mailing, and a sunset date of August 30, 2013.

Decided 
June 01, 2011
RTF Meeting: June 1, 2011

Approve measure udpates

Decision Details

Approve the residential compact fluorescent lighting measure for unit energy savings measure status based on the proposed EISA phase in in baseline wattage, adjusted hours of operation, and with a sunset date of December 31, 2013. This is approved as an active measure.

Decided 
May 03, 2011
RTF Meeting: May 3, 2011

Direction for further analysis

Decision Details

Advised the compact fluorescent light measure review contractor and RTF staff to go back to the calculation and make changes in the methodology to calculate the baseline and efficient-case wattage by category, perform an analysis of cost of halogen lamps, and to bring the measure back with the updated measure workbook and necessary documentation for RTF consideration.

Decided 
February 01, 2011
RTF Meeting: February 1, 2011

Measure set to under review

Decision Details

The status of this measure was changed to "under review."

Decided 
January 04, 2011
RTF Meeting: January 4, 2011

Direction for subcommittee

Decision Details

Presenters should bring their proposal back in the template format with a study plan for getting the measure to provisional status

Decided 
April 06, 2010
RTF Meeting: April 6, 2010

Approve measure update

Decision Details

The RTF made a series of decisions:

  • Reduce the storage rate for specialty bulbs from 36% to 20%
  • Reduce direct-install removal rates for both standard and specialty lamps to from 12% to 4%
  • Reduce the take-back from 5% to 0%
  • Accept proposed savings for specialty lamps by lamp type
  • Adopt Approach 4 to weighting by lamp type for the "any-specialty-lamp" option
  • Adopt measure requirements (Energy Star rated; 5 watts or greater; data collection for retail measures to include package size, retail cost, and wattage; data collection for direct install measures to include lamp type, wattage, and room in which installed)
  • Adopt 24-month sunset provision
  • Accept a 1% storage rate for LEDs

Small/rural Checklist

Latest Version

September 2019 Residential Lighting Small/Rural Utilities Checklist

File September 2019 Residential Lighting Small/Rural Utilities Checklist
Checklist corresponds to changes approved at the September 2019 RTF Meeting.
Date 
Sep 24, 2019

Past Versions

version date document
Dec 05, 2017
File December 2017 Residential Lighting Small/Rural Checklist
Checklist corresponds to changes approved at the December 2017 RTF Meeting.
5.0
Feb 03, 2017
File SmallRuralUtilitiesUESDesignChecklist_ResidentialLighting.xlsx
Corresponds with changes made to the version 5.0 measure workbook during updates approved at the January 2017 RTF meeting.
Aug 28, 2015
File ResLighting_SRR_Checklist.xlsx
Jul 08, 2014
File ResLighting_SRR_Checklist_archive.xlsx
Dec 12, 2013
File ResLightingLED_SRR_Checklist.xlsx
Mar 01, 2013
File ResSpecialtyCFL_SRR_Checklist.xlsx

Archived Documents

Residential Lighting Research Strategy, March 2017 Residential Specialty Lighting Recommendations (4-17-12) Residential CFL Lighting Recommendations (12-2-10) Residential Lighting Baseline Table (2014-04-07) Residential Lighting Baseline Table (2016-12) v1.0
LED Fixture Scraped Data (2016-05) Simple Steps Product List (12-05-16) ENERGY STAR certified light fixtures (2016-12-31) SF Lighting for RTF Measures (2013-12-12) RBSA Lighting MetaTable

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