SASO Organizes Workshop to Introduce
Registration Process for Lighting Products
In collaboration with the Saudi Energy
Efficiency Center (SEEC), SASO organized a workshop entitled "The Process
of Registration for Lighting Products According to the Technical Regulation No.
SASO- 2870-2015" at SASO headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday, Sha'ban 25th,
1437 AH, corresponding to June 1st , 2016.
Organizing such workshops is a part of
concentrated efforts exerted by an integrated national work system composed of
many government and semi-government bodies, dominated by coordination and
organization in all performance steps under the Saudi Energy Efficiency
Program. The program increases energy efficiency activities in building,
transport, and industry sectors by implementing many procedures and initiatives
that contribute to reducing the increasing consumption of energy in the
Kingdom.
The workshop included a detailed
explanation for the technical regulation, the registration process, and the
procedures to obtain energy efficiency label for lighting products. The
mandatory enforcement of including the label in the certificates of conformity
(COC) for consignments coming to the Kingdom commenced on Rajab 24th,
1437 AH, corresponding to May 1st, 2016. Manufacturing or importing
lighting products that do not have the energy efficiency label will not be
allowed starting from Shawwal 27th, 1437 AH, corresponding to August
1st, 2016.
The technical regulation "Energy
Efficiency, Functionality, and Labeling Requirements for Lighting
Products" was approved by SASO Board of Directors in its meeting No. 152
held on Ramadan 6th, 1436 AH, corresponding to June 23rd,
2015. The efficiency label indicates the energy consumption volume for every
product which is classified according to its energy consumption, facilitating
for consumers the process of selecting the most energy-efficient product. The
technical regulation covers direct and indirect lamps having a luminous flux
above 60 lumens and below 12 000 lumens for the technologies of incandescent
lamps, halogen lamps, compact fluorescent lamps with integrated ballast (CFLi),
and light emitting diode (LED) lamps. Lighting products consume about 9% of the
total energy consumption in the Kingdom. On the other hand, the annual
consumption volume is estimated to exceed 5 billion riyals. The rationalization
of electrical energy consumption in those products comes as an important part
of the initiatives launched to rationalize the energy consumption in the
Kingdom.
It is worth mentioning that SASO organized
in collaboration with SEEC three workshops under the same title in Riyadh,
Jeddah, and Dammam. The purpose of such workshops was to raise importers and
manufacturers' awareness of the new technical regulations and the mechanisms
used to deal with them according to the Saudi Energy Efficiency Program.