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On September 14, 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to amend the test procedures for general service fluorescent lamps (GSFLs), general service incandescent lamps (GSILs), and incandescent reflector lamps (IRLs). That proposed rulemaking serves as the basis for today's action. DOE is amending its test procedures for GSFLs and GSILs established under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA). DOE is not amending in this final rule the existing test procedure for IRLs established under EPCA. For GSFLs and GSILs, DOE is updating several references to the industry standards referenced in DOE's test procedures. DOE is also establishing a lamp lifetime test procedure for GSILs. These test procedures also provide the protocols upon which...
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To the Editors:
Congratulations are in order to the do-nothing 112th Congress that really lived up to that moniker, with its deletion of the 2012 funding to enforce the energy-efficiency standards governing traditional incandescent lamps contained in the Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007, mistakenly known as the "light bulb ban.
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SEVERAL OF MY SONS, AND FREINDS, and I were sitting around a trestle picnic table at my farm stuffing ourselves on the fried okra, candied yams, fried chicken, smothered pork chops, coleslaw, fritters, and hush puppies provided by my friend, J.C. Ratcliffe (who runs a wonderful country restaurant in a village nearby where if you blink, you have driven by it)-taking of this and that and laughing at the story told to us by tall, blonde, buxom, long-legged, and drop-dead-gorgeous daughter-in-law Nancy Horbach (widow of our son Javier), who went this past summer to visit her family in Iowa. Heston at a critical moment, twice, the stagehands (who kept forgetting to load John Ireland's rifle with blank cartridges, so that more than once he came running up to the barricade, shouldered his rif...
... failing, so that all the hundreds of incandescent lamps went out, leaving the whole city of Peking i...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is informing the public of its collection of shipment data and creation of spreadsheet models to provide comparisons between actual and benchmark estimate unit sales of five lamp types (i.e., rough service lamps, vibration service lamps, 3- way incandescent lamps, 2,601-3,300 lumen general service incandescent lamps, and shatter-resistant lamps), which are currently exempt from energy conservation standards. As the actual sales do not exceed the forecasted estimate by 100 percent for any lamp type (i.e., the threshold triggering a rulemaking for an energy conservation standard for that lamp type has not been exceeded), DOE has determined that no regulatory action is necessary at this time. However, DOE will continue to track sales data for these exemp...
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By Kenneth G. Taylor / Special to the Sunday News
In 2007, Congress passed the Clean Energy Act. It required all households to transition from current incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, by 2012, after which incandescent bulbs cannot be legally produced.
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