Vladimir Gabrielyan – President of the Lighting Business Consulting – was invited by the UNDP (Untied Nations Development Program) Ukraine to act as a International Consultant for the Project – “Development of the roadmap towards phasing-out energy inefficient lighting in Ukraine”.
Ukraine continues to be one of the least energy efficient countries in the world and ranks 19th among the world’s largest emitters of GHGs (green house gasses). Currently, the power consumption in relation to the gross domestic product in Ukraine is more than twice higher than in the industrialized countries of Western Europe and it keeps on growing.
Cost per tonne of equivalent fuel gained by energy conservation is several times less than the costs of its recovery/production or purchase. Therefore, in Ukraine, the energy efficiency and energy conservation becomes a strategic line of economic and social development in the short and in the long run as well. That is exactly the way that has been taken by the industrialized countries, and the most of success in the increasing of the efficiency has been achieved by the ‘power-hungry’ countries such as Japan, Italy, etc. . .
The major strategic line for the increase of energy efficiency, including Energy Efficient (EE) lighting and employment of energy saving potential, is to create an administrative, legal and economic mechanism promoting energy efficiency and energy savings. Enabling environment for the introduction of EE lighting technologies shall be created based upon the effective policies. A fundamental condition for the increase of energy efficiency is to develop relevant legal and regulatory framework that would make it impossible to operate in the country energy-inefficient lighting technologies noncompliant with applicable international standards.
The overall Project’s objective is to facilitate the market’s transition over to EE lighting technologies, by phasing-out energy inefficient lighting, introducing minimum energy performance standards and compliance programme and effective insuring quality control system for EE lighting products.