Solar Manufacturers
EPEAT®, the leading global Type 1 ecolabel for electronics, offers manufacturers meaningful criteria, third party verification, and easy to understand frameworks that provide transparency for buyers.
The EPEAT Photovoltaic Modules and Inverters (PVMI) Criteria, as well as its accompanying Ultra Low Carbon Solar Criteria for solar modules, offer several unique opportunities for manufacturers and their customers.
制造商的机遇
领导定位
通过提供对有效减少范畴 3 排放至关重要的低体现碳产品，在制造商中脱颖而出
产品设计和供应链标准
EPEAT 标准涉及气候变化和劳工问题，这也是大多数 ESG 和 CSR 计划和报告的共同关注点。
第三方验证
经 EPEAT 注册的产品在整个产品生命周期内，从资源开采和制造，到组装、使用和报废，均符合严格的标准，值得信赖。
机构采购人员的认识
与在合同中规定使用 EPEAT 注册产品的采购商建立联系。
美国环保局关于标准和生态标签的建议
美国环保署将 EPEAT 注册的太阳能电池板纳入其标准和生态标签建议中。
EPEAT SOLAR MODULAR CARBON THRESHOLDS
While solar modules are known for their carbon-free electricity generation, many are manufactured in ways that limit their overall effectiveness at emissions reduction. Currently, most solar modules can trace 50% to 80% or more of their embodied carbon to these initial steps in their product supply chains. As the energy sector and its clients seek to reduce Scope 3 emissions, they must address the embodied carbon of solar energy.
EPEAT is the only global ecolabel to tackle the often-overlooked issue of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during solar module production, enabling purchasers, developers and investors to lower their overall carbon footprint for this key part of the renewable energy infrastructure. In addition to the required PVMI criteria, solar modules must also meet or surpass a required low-carbon threshold, which can be found in the EPEAT Ultra Low Carbon Threshold criteria. This second set of criteria do not apply to solar inverters.
This second set of solar module criteria also contains a lower optional carbon threshold manufactures can meet.
630
kg CO₂e /kWp
Required: Low Carbon Solar
Solar Modules must to meet this threshold in order to become EPEAT registered.
400
kg CO₂e /kWp
Optional: Ultra-Low Carbon Solar
Solar Modules that meet this threshold qualify for the EPEAT Climate+ ™ product designation.
EPEAT CLIMATE+™
EPEAT Climate+™ is a product designation that helps electronics purchasers quickly find products verified to have met all required EPEAT Climate Criteria. Products meeting these criteria are ideal for organizations seeking to track and achieve climate impact goals related to their procurement.
Solar Modules registered with the Climate+ designation have met the ultra low carbon threshold, making them leaders among the low carbon solar modules available on the EPEAT Registry. Modules are given special recognition among other industry-leading electronics including computers & displays, imaging equipment, mobile phones, televisions, and servers.
GEC CLIMATE+ PLEDGE
The GEC Climate+ Pledge seeks to harness the purchasing power of organizations committed to tracking and reducing their carbon footprint associated with electronic products. The pledge brings together the leadership and influence of these organizations to reduce the climate impacts of electronic products. By signing this pledge, participants become integral members of a thriving community of climate leaders and advocates.
Understanding that organizations contribute in different ways, this pledge will consist of two primary groups of signatories: EPEAT Climate+ Purchasing Leaders and EPEAT Climate+ Purchasing Advocates. Purchasing Leaders are organizations committed to purchasing Climate+ Products, while Purchasing Advocates are Organizations and Individuals Advocating and Promoting EPEAT Climate+ Products.
制造商如何在 EPEAT 注册中心注册合格产品
步骤 1：审查适用的 EPEAT 标准
制造商应首先查看 EPEAT 光伏组件和逆变器产品类别标准和 EPEAT 超低碳太阳能组件评估标准，以了解相关要求并确定满足所有必要标准所需的条件。
第 2 步：填写参与 EPEAT 的表格
有意在 EPEAT 注册其产品的制造商签署 EPEAT 许可和参与制造商协议。制造商还必须填写 EPEAT 参与制造商信息表并支付 EPEAT 参与制造商费用。
步骤 4：产品进入 EPEAT 注册表
一旦获得批准的 CAB 确认制造商及其产品符合 EPEAT 标准，该产品就会出现在 EPEAT 注册表中，供购买者查看和搜索。
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