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GEC Launches EPEAT Photovoltaic Modules & Inverters Category An GEC Launches EPEAT Photovoltaic Modules & Inverters Category An Overview of GEC and EPEAT October 2020 INTRODUCTION Nancy Gillis CEO Green Electronics Council [email protected] 2 October 2020 Green Electronics Council (GEC) is a mission driven not-for-profit that collaborates to achieve a world of only sustainable electronic products and services. We embrace the benefits of technology but not at the price of People or Planet. We advocate for sustainable electronics by helping both manufacturers and large-scale purchasers to: the challenges facing to address those to change design, operational, sustainable IT challenges manufacturing and sourcing behaviors 3 October 2020 GEC SUPPORTS INSTITUTIONAL PURCHASERS GEC seeks to fulfill our mission by supporting large-scale purchasers to buy sustainable electronic products and services as a way to incentivize producers to make sustainable electronic products and services. GEC Freely Available Tools and Resources ✓ Sustainable Procurement Policy ✓ Webinars (2020) examples ✓ Technology and Conservation ✓ IT products contract language Series examples ✓ Public-Private Purchaser Series ✓ Purchaser Guides ✓ Sustainable Public Procurement • Labor and Human Rights (2017 course (in partnership with ERA) version being updated in 2020) ✓ EPEAT, leading global “Type 1” • Cloud Services Procurements ecolabel (launched March 2019) • EPEAT Benefits Calculators • Procurement for Circular Economy • EPEAT Purchaser Recognition and (October 2020) Awards Event 4 October 2020 GEC MANAGES THE EPEAT ECOLABEL Current EPEAT Product Categories Upcoming Categories Computers (Desktops, Laptops, Tablets) & Displays Network Infrastructure [Enterprise Switches and Routers; Customer Premises Routers] Imaging Equipment Spring 2021 Televisions Health & Wellbeing Wearables Fall 2021 Mobile Phones Products meeting EPEAT criteria listed at Servers https://epeat.net Photovoltaic Modules & Inverters 6 October 2020 HOW ARE PRODUCTS RATED BY EPEAT? • Products must meet all required criteria to be covered by EPEAT – Just by being “EPEAT” tells purchasers the product is sustainable • Products are rated bronze, silver or gold based on the number of optional criteria they meet Meets less than 50% Meets 50 to 75% Meets more than 75% Optional Criteria Optional Criteria Optional Criteria 7 October 2020 Criteria Address Lifecycle Sustainability Impacts RAW MATERIAL MATERIAL & PRODUCT PRODUCT USE END OF LIFE EXTRACTION COMPONENT ASSEMBLY MANUFACTURING Chemicals of Climate Change Corporate ESG Sustainable Use of Concern Performance Resources • Restricted • Manufacturing energy • Social performance & • Recycled content substances in efficiency audits • Design for recycling product - RoHS, • F-GHG emissions in • Worker health & • Product take back & REACH, halogenated manufacturing safety responsible recycling substances • Life cycle assessment • EMS • Disclosure of recovery • Substance inventory and disclosure of • Responsible mineral & recycling and disclosure cumulative energy sourcing achievement • Alternatives demand and global • Corporate reporting • Material recovery assessment warming potential • Hot spot targets identification & • Efficient water use in leadership compared manufacturing to industry 8 October 2020 GEC REQUIRES 3RD PARTY VALIDATION FOR EPEAT Green Electronics Council GEC • Owns and manages the EPEAT Program with focus on efficiency, credibility and large-scale sustainability impact EPEAT Program • EPEAT Establishes and maintains EPEAT program policies and implementation guidance Program • Approves, oversees, provides guidance to Conformity Assurance Bodies • Facilitates EPEAT related advisory bodies • Maintains online Registry of EPEAT conforming products Conformity Assurance Bodies (CABs) CTC Dekra GEC • Well known and reputable certification firms • Work with manufacturers to verify that products meet the EPEAT criteria TUV-R ULE VDE • Conduct ongoing monitoring investigations of product claims • Serve as technical resource for EPEAT Participating Manufacturers • Identify which criteria their product(s) claim Mfcr 1 Mfcr 2 Mfcr 3 Mfcr 4 • Work with their CAB to verify claims • Implement corrective actions, as needed March 2019 9 October 2020 BRANDS PARTICIPATING IN EPEAT* *As of October 2020 Ace Computers Google Panasonic Acer Inc Herbecon Systems SL Positivo Tecnologia S.A. Algoritmos Procesos y Disenos, S.A. Howard Technology Ricoh AOC International (Europe) B.V. Solutions Riso Kagaku Corporation Apple Inc HP Inc. Samsung ASUSTek Computer Inc Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Sharp Atrust Computer Corp Hypertechnologie-Ciara Teknoservice S.L. BenQ Hyundai IT America Corp Ticnova Quality Team SL Brother International Corporation IBM Toshiba Canon IGEL Technology GmbH Transource CEZAR Cezary Machnio I Piotr Iiyama Corporation UNOWHY Gebka Sp Zoo Inforlandia S.A. ViewSonic Corporation Cisco Systems Kodak Alaris Visioneer CTL Corporation Konica Minolta Xerox Dell Inc Kyocera Zebra Technologies DT Research Lenovo Durabook Americas Inc. Lexmark International, Inc Purchasers require EPEAT because Dynabook Americas LG Electronics Inc. • It offers more products from EIZO Corporation Login Informatica more manufacturers than any Epson Microsoft Corporation other electronics ecolabel First Solar MMD Monitors and Displays Nederland B.V. • It includes small & medium Fujitsu Limited Northern Micro Inc businesses GETAC • It highlights innovation 10 October 2020 EPEAT Products Identified on Online Registry Products meeting EPEAT criteria listed at https://epeat.net 11 October 2020 More Than a Megawatt: RE Procurement Initiative • Initiative led by Salesforce, distributed by Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) • Looking beyond zero carbon electricity generation to evaluate lifecycle impacts of RE projects, including land use and emission offsets • Evaluates sustainable hardware using EPEAT EPEAT Scoring Matrix PV Modules Not Bronze Silver Gold registered Not 0 1.5 2 2.5 Inverters registered Bronze 1.0 2.5 3 3.5 Silver 1.5 3 3.5 4 12 https://bit.ly/3dx936M Gold October 20202.0 3.5 4 5 12 October 2020.
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