In 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in response to the Clean Air Act, introduced energy star certification projects for energy conservation and emission reduction. Energy Star to environmental advocacy, tax incentives, cooperative organizations and other policies to quickly expand the influence of influence, and gradually play an important role in the trade market. Lighting product certification is an important part of the Energy Star project, January 2017 bulb standard V2.0 has replaced the original V1.1 standard, June EPA has released the energy star light bulb V2.1 standard, the new standard will be 2017 October 1 officially replace the V2.0 standard. This update does not require re-certification for products that have been certified by the V2.0 standard.

Major updates

All LED bulb life requirements are updated to 15,000 hours, the standard reduces the minimum life requirements;

Strobe test parameters require Pst, SVM and ASSIST MP;

The new standard accepts LM-80-15 reporting data, the EPA is revising the LM-80 data usage rules;