Title :
Federal purchasing: leading the market for low standby products
Author :
Thomas, Alison ; Glickman, Joan ; Harris, Jeffrey ; Meier, Alan
Author_Institution :
Fed. Energy Manage. Program, US Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
This paper summarizes the efforts between Department of Energy\´s Federal Energy Management Program and industry in implementing executive order 13221 "standby power devices," which directs all federal agencies to buy products with low standby power (1 watt or less where possible). This paper also describes the significant role that federal purchasing can play in transforming the market for energy efficient products.
Keywords :
energy conservation; power markets; power supplies to apparatus; Federal Energy Management Program; energy efficiency; federal agency; standby power devices; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Laboratories; Legislation; Procurement; Routing; State estimation; US Department of Energy; US Government; US local government;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2004. APEC '04. Nineteenth Annual IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8269-2
DOI :
10.1109/APEC.2004.1295828
