Introduction to California Energy Efficiency CEC Certification:

CEC certification is an Appliance Efficiency Regulation implemented by the California Energy Commission on December 30, 2005. The purpose of implementing this regulation is to improve the efficiency of electrical products, save  energy, reduce gas emissions and the greenhouse effect. At present, BACL has obtained the authorization of various products such as audio and video, energy-saving lamps, LED high-efficiency lighting, ballasts and power supplies, and can provide customers with CEC-related tests and reports.

CEC Title20 regulations repeal portable luminaires:

The California OAL (Office of Administrative Law) officially approved the abolition of portable lamps from the Title20 appliance efficiency regulations. The effective date of the regulations is April 25, 2023. This means that portable lamps will not need to meet the Title20 regulatory requirements before they are sold in California, but other regulated lighting products will not be affected. For portable luminaires that use LED lamps as light sources, the lamps still need to meet the Title20 requirements!

All portable luminaire models in MAEDbS have been moved to the archived database:

CEC also reminded by email on May 2 that All portable luminaire models in MAEDbS have been moved to the archived database, because portable luminaires are no longer regulated under the Title 20 Appliance Efficiency Regulations. This change was included in rulemaking 22-AAER-02, which became effective on April 25, 2023. Portable luminaires no longer have to comply with Title 20 or be certified to MAEDbS in order to be sold or offered for sale in California. As a result, all portable luminaire models have been archived for historical purposes and new certifications are no longer allowed.

Original CEC official announcement:

We will continue to pay attention to the updates of a series of regulations such as California CEC Title 20 and CEC Title 24, and accurately interpret the impact of the arrival of technical standards for you in a timely manner, so as to respond in advance and conduct compliance assessments, and successfully enter the North American lighting market!

About BACL:

BACL is the Energy Star testing laboratory, certification body, and verification testing laboratory accredited by the EPA. At the same time we obtain the authorization and recognition of NVLAP (Lab Code: 200707-0), IAS (Accreditation No.: PCA-139, TL-1044, AA-797), CNAS (Registration No.: L2408, L5662, L6290, L9963, L11432, IB0343), A2LA(Certificate No.: 3297.01, 3297.02, 3297.03), and so on. Respectively have testing sites in US, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Kunshan, such places. With the ability to complete the energy efficiency aging detection of 60,000 lights at the same time. BACL is currently a large-scale energy efficiency testing laboratory in China.

We can provide you with testing and certification service, such as US Energy Star, DLC, DOE, CEC Title20, CEC Title24, LDL, FTC Label, European Union ErP, Canada NRCan, UK EST, Australia GEMS/VEET/IPART, Energy Efficiency Label ELI, Hong Kong Energy Efficiency Label and etc.