Guidance on Purchasing EPEAT Registered Products “the federal government can and should lead by example when it comes to creating innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, conserve water, reduce waste, and use environmentally responsible products and technologies”. - President Obama, October 2009 Holly Elwood Senior Program Manager Pollution Prevention Division Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention US Environmental Protection Agency
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Guidance on Purchasing
EPEAT Registered Products “the federal government can and should lead by example when it comes to creating
innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, conserve
water, reduce waste, and use environmentally responsible products and technologies”.
- President Obama, October 2009
Holly Elwood
Senior Program Manager
Pollution Prevention Division
Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
US Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing Program
• Established in 1993 by Executive Order, and reaffirmed in Obama’s EO 13514
• Mandated EPA to: – Help federal agencies buy greener products and services
– Harness federal purchasing power to green markets
• Lead Agency efforts to: – Work with stakeholders to create life cycle, multi-attribute environment
performance standards for priority products that feds procure and
– Provide technical assistance to help feds buy products meeting these standards
• Focus on electronics, buildings, meetings
Feds Required to Buy EPEAT
Registered Products • Executive Orders 13514 and 13423
– Require purchase and lease of EPEAT® registered
electronics under both sustainable acquisition and
electronics stewardship goals
– Must achieve a 95% acquisition rate
• Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 23
– Requires acquisition of EPEAT® registered electronics
– Must achieve a 95% acquisition rate
– Contracting clause requires acquisition of Bronze
registered products, alternate clause for Silver or higher
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What is EPEAT®?
• The Electronic Product Environmental
Assessment Tool (EPEAT)
• A system to help purchasers evaluate, compare
and select electronic products based on their
environmental attributes
• A system to enable manufacturers to obtain
market recognition through achievement of
specific performance criteria in electronic
product design and sales
• Not an EPA Program 4
What is EPEAT?
• Set of voluntary performance criteria that define required and optional environmental attributes for electronic products
• System for listing products that meet the performance criteria
• Method for verifying that listed products have achieved specified performance criteria
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What Products Does EPEAT Cover?
Computer Desktops, Laptops, and
Monitors
Imaging equipment: (Printers, Copiers,
Multi-Function Devices, Scanners, Fax
Machines,
Digital Duplicators, Mailing Machines)
Televisions
Servers
Mobile devices
Currently:
Up next:
How are Standards EPEAT Uses Created?
• Developed through ANSI accredited Standard
Development Organizations
• Open, consensus based process used
• Active participation from manufacturers,
suppliers, recyclers, academics, government
representatives, purchasers, and environmental
advocacy organizations
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EPEAT Tiers
• EPEAT Bronze
▫ Meets all 23 mandatory criteria
• EPEAT Silver
▫ Meets all mandatory criteria and at least 50%
of the optional criteria
• EPEAT Gold
▫ Meets all mandatory criteria and at least 75%
of the optional criteria
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EPEAT Expanded to Cover TVs and Imaging
Equipment
• IEEE 1680.2 Standard for the Environmental
Assessment of Imaging Equipment and the IEEE 1680.3
Standard for the Environmental Assessment of
Televisions both were approved as final IEEE standards
on August 30th, 2012
• The final standards are now available at:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1680/EASC/
• Imaging equipment products were added to the Registry
on January 29th, 2013.
• Televisions were added to the EPEAT Product Registry
• “Under this contract, the Contractor shall deliver,
furnish for Government use, or furnish for contractor
use at a federally controlled facility, only imaging
equipment and/or televisions that at the time of
submission of proposals and at the time of award
were EPEAT Bronze registered or higher.
For information about EPEAT, see
www.epa.gov/epeat.”
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Recommended Language for New Contracts
• “Suppliers are
required to block
non-EPEAT
registered products
on their electronic
catalogs that
customers may buy
from through this
contract”.
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Reporting Requirements Related to EPEAT
• All agencies are required to report to OMB on their procurement of EPEAT registered products as part of the Federal Energy and Sustainability Scorecard
• Agencies must share:
– a. FY 12 IT contracts include EPEAT clauses? (Yes/NO, if not, indicate when to be completed): b. Indicate % of EPEAT products purchased in FY 2012 Agency-wide: i. Number EPEAT Monitors purchased: ii. Number non-EPEAT Monitors purchased: iii. % EPEAT Monitors Purchased: iv. Number EPEAT PCs purchased: v. Number non-EPEAT PCs purchased: vi. % EPEAT PCs purchased: vii. Number EPEAT Laptops purchased: viii. Number non-EPEAT Laptops purchased: ix. % EPEAT Laptops purchased:
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Reporting Related to EPEAT
Expansion
• OFEE and OMB have not finalized the questions
related to EPEAT registered IE and TV products
• Will most likely mirror questions for computers
• May use sample products to reduce reporting
burden
• Final guidance will be shared via the Federal
Electronics Stewardship Work Group
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Unregistered Bronze Silver Gold
Desktops 1 0 5 12
Notebooks 0 1 3 10
Displays 0 0 0 30
Televisions 1 1 0 0
Printers 0 5 0 0
Copiers 0 2 0 0
MFDs 1 1 0 0
Recommended Language for New Contracts
• “Suppliers are required to provide quarterly reports quantifying
the number of EPEAT registered products purchased under this
contract. The information must be reported in a matrix providing
the following data for the current quarter, the fiscal year, and the
1 | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy eere.energy.gov
Federal Procurement of Low Standby Power Products
Christopher Payne
Technical Support Lead
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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FEMP’s Programmatic Vision
Institutionalize persistent and increasing
reductions in energy used by the products
purchased and used by the U.S.
Government
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Standby power is the lowest power consumption a product achieves when connected to the mains.
Standby power is a level, not an operating mode.
What is Standby Power?
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Energy Independence and Security Act Sec. 524
Executive Order 13221
Federal Acquisition Regulations Part 23.203
…all require purchase of products with low standby power
Why Should I Care?
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femp.energy.gov/standby
How Can I Comply?
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Christopher Payne Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (510) 495-2577 [email protected] David Catarious Federal Energy Management Program (202) 586-8121 [email protected]