Richard Karney, Energy Star Program Manager for Solid State Lighting for the DOE, issued a memo to Energy Star Stakeholders to "address a disconcerting trend the Department is seeing in promotional materials of LED products."
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The confusion, deliberate or otherwise, stems from the use of the Certification Mark and the Partnership logo.
The familiar Certification Mark should be used only in conjunction with products that have received Energy Star qualification.
Meanwhile, the Energy Star Partnership logo is designed to communicate a partner's commitment to energy efficiency and to the environment and is allowed in general publications such as stationery, annual reports, and general company-related websites, says Karney. "The Partnership logo should not be used in connection with any product or component," he says. "The Certification Mark is used for qualified products only."
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The Energy Star logos are being used by certain companies to imply that their integral LED lamp products (a.k.a. replacement LED lamps) are qualified, but this cannot be the case since the Integral LED Lamp Criteria is not yet final.
Karney says that violations in the use of the Energy Star logos
confuse the market and jeopardize the integrity of the Energy Star
brand. Failure to use the Energy Star mark appropriately could result
in the termination of an organization's partnership with the Energy
Star program.
Instructions on the correct use of logos can be found at www.energystar.gov/logos,