The California Building Standards Commission created Title 24 standards to ensure that building construction and system design create minimum energy-efficiency levels for new residential and nonresidential buildings to maximize energy savings. These standards are updated by the California Energy Commission(CEC) to include new energy efficiency methods.

CALIFORNIA TITLE 20

The California Building Standards Commission created Title 20 standards to ensure that building construction and system design and installation achieve higher energy efficiency, it includes standards for both federally regulated appliances and non-federally - regulated appliances. These standards are updated by the California Energy Commission (CEC] to include new energy efficiency methods.

DOE

The Department of Energy's (DOE) overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; and to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission.

CEC

CEC is the abbreviation of the California Energy Commission. its role is to make the energy market develop in thedirection of healthy competition. Beginning July 1, 2006, all external power supplies exported to California, USA must meet the California Energy Efficiency Regulations issued by the California Energy Commission. This California energy efficiency regulation is in the United States. A new energy efficiency regulation was developed on the basis of Energy Star.

EPA

The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment - air. water and land - upon which life depends. EPA leads the nation's environmental science. research, education, and assessment efforts by developing and enforcing regulations; providing financial assistance throughresearch grants and graduate fellowships, and supporting environmental education projects and services; performing environmental research at EPA laboratories located throughout the nation; and sponsoring voluntary partnerships and programs.

LED Lighting Facts® is a program of the U.S. Department of Energy that showcases LED products for generalillumination from manufacturers who commit to testing products and reporting performance results according to industry standards.

NEMA provides a forum for the standardization of electrical equipment, enabling consumers to select from a range of safe, effective, and compatible electrical products.

he Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) is the recognized technical authority on illumination. Forover 100 years; its objective has been to communicate information on all aspects of good lighting practice to its members, to the lighting community, and to consumers, through a variety of programs, publications, and services.