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The IFC/GEF Poland Efficient Lighting Project(PELP): Evaluation Results and Next steps
Panel: Panel 2: Technologies and Products (innovation, marketing, market transformation)
Authors:
Sabrina Birner, June Consulting
Christopher Granda, Ecos Consulting
Abstract
To
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases emitted by Poland's energy
sector, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is the
private sector arm of the World Bank Group, developed a Global Environment
Facility (GEF) project known as the Poland Efficient Lighting Project
(PELP). PELP, which was active in Poland from June 1995 until June
1998, was the first GEF project designed to work directly through
the private sector. PELP reduced electricity consumption by stimulating
the Polish consumer market for efficient lighting products.
PELP provides useful examples of approaches to help transform consumer
lighting markets from incandescent to fluorescent lighting. PELP
applied competitive, market-based program tools that achieved large
increases in sales of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) at a lower
cost per CFL than many other similar efforts to promote CFLs to
consumers. PELP has also been able to measure electric utility peak
load reductions from the targeted installation of CFLs in limited
geographic areas, providing new motivation for electric utility
support of these types of programs. Finally, by working with Polish
government agencies, NGOs and international organizations, PELP
was able to generate broad public interest and create within the
Polish market a widely recognized symbol for lighting efficiency
and quality. IFC is building on the PELP Legacy by allocating the
funds unspent at the close of PELP to further public and private
sector promotion of energy-efficient lighting in Poland. Furthermore,
based on experience with PELP and other lighting programs, IFC will
implement a $15 million GEF Efficient Lighting Initiative (ELI)
in seven developing and transitional countries around the world.
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