{"id":6707,"date":"2014-04-15T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unrbep.org\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2014-04-15T09:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:21:40","slug":"fluorescent-tubes-doe-requires-better-energy-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/fluorescent-tubes-doe-requires-better-energy-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluorescent Tubes: DOE Requires Better Energy Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted: April 15, 2014<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energymanagertoday.com\/fluorescent-tubes-doe-requires-better-energy-efficiency-0100280\/\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Manager Today.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/eere\/buildings\/downloads\/2014-04-11-issuance-energy-conservation-standards-general-service\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Energy issued a pre-publication notice of proposed rulemaking regarding energy conservation standards for general service fluorescent lamps and incandescent reflector lamps<\/a>. \u00a0The tube-shaped fluorescent lamps covered by the ruling consume almost five percent of all national electricity consumption, <a href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/nhorowitz\/doe_poised_to_hit_a_home_run_w.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to a blog posting on the Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NRDC applauds the new rules for fluorescent tubes but is less pleased with the rules covering incandescent reflector lamps, the bulbs that go into recessed cans and flood lights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately DOE was prohibited from setting standards for a large portion of this market due to a funding prohibition caused by a Congressional rider,\u201d according to NRDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: April 15, 2014 Source: Energy Manager Today.com The Department of Energy issued a pre-publication notice of proposed rulemaking regarding energy conservation standards for general service fluorescent lamps and incandescent reflector lamps. \u00a0The tube-shaped fluorescent lamps covered by the ruling consume almost five percent of all national electricity consumption, according to a blog posting on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/fluorescent-tubes-doe-requires-better-energy-efficiency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fluorescent Tubes: DOE Requires Better Energy Efficiency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15],"tags":[68,182,183,121,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}